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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827553403321

Autore

Bowen John Richard <1951->

Titolo

Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia : an anthropology of public reasoning / / John R. Bowen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13748-9

1-280-43674-3

0-511-17918-9

1-139-14906-7

0-511-06237-0

0-511-05604-4

0-511-30623-7

0-511-61512-4

0-511-07083-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

340.5/9/09598

Soggetti

Legal polycentricity - Indonesia

Islamic law - Indonesia

Adat law - Indonesia - Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam

Domestic relations - Indonesia - Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Map; Tables; Acknowledgments; Glossary; 1 Law, religion, and pluralism; 2 Adat's local inequalities; 3 Remapping adat; 4 The contours of the courts; 5 The judicial history of "consensus"; 6 The poisoned gift; 7 Historicizing scripture, justifying equality; 8 Whose word is law?; 9 Gender equality in the family?; 10 Justifying religious boundaries; 11 Public reasoning across cultural pluralism; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and



contemporary ideas about gender equality and rule of law. In this 2003 study, John Bowen explores this struggle, through archival and ethnographic research in villages and courtrooms of the Aceh Province, Sumatra, and through interviews with national religious and legal figures. He analyses the social frameworks for disputes about land, inheritance, marriage, divorce, Islamic History and, more broadly, about the relationships between the state and Islam, and between Muslims and non-Muslims. The book speaks to debates carried out in all societies about how people can live together with their deep differences in values and ways of life. It will be welcomed by scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, cultural sociology and political theory.