Keywords
Democracy Public Ethics
Islam
State
How to Cite
Abstract
This article discusses Robert W. Hefner’s Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics (2024), that characterizes the interplay between religious culture and politics in Indonesia not as a single trend, but as a contentious project of nation-making and citizen belonging. The book seeks to address broad questions concerning the role and influence of Indonesian Muslim culture and its social movements, the messages conveyed through Islamic higher education, the social roles of Muslim women, and the impact of electoral democracy on the contested interpretations of Islam in the Indonesian public sphere. The book argues that the relationship between religion and state, and other forms of authority in Indonesia as a process of religionization, which distinguished from Islamization, while also emphasizing Indonesia as a site of agonistic plurality. By dispersive and multi-sectoral approach, the book offers a compelling framework for understanding the complex entanglements between religion, state, and society in shaping Indonesian public ethics.References
“Freedom in The World 2019”, Freedom House
Arifianto, Alexander R. 2020. “Rising Islamism and the Struggle for Islamic Authority in Post-Reformasi Indonesia.” Trans: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 8(1): 37–50.
Feener, R. Michael. 2013. Shari’a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Feillard, Andrée, and Rémy Madinier. 2011. The End of Innocence?: Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism. Singapore: University of Hawai’i Press.
Fish, Steven. 2002. “Islam and Authoritarianism.” World Politics 55: 4-37.
Geertz, Clifford. 1968. Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hadiz, Vedi R. 2017. “Indonesia’s Year of Democratic Setbacks: Towards a New Phase of Deepening Illiberalism?” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 53:3. 261–78.
Hefner, Robert W. 2023. Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and The Quest for An Inclusive Public Ethics. New York: Routledge.
Huntington, Samuel. 1997. The Clash of Civilization. Remaking of the World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster
Kartodirdjo, Sartono. 1966. The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888: Its Conditions, Course and Sequel. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Kuru, Ahmet T. 2009. Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1994. “The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited.” American Sociological Review 59: 1-22.
Mujani, Saiful. 2007. Muslim Demokrat: Islam, Budaya Demokrasi, dan Partisipasi Politik di Indonesia Pasca Orde Baru. Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
Salvatore, Armando. 2007. The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Thaha, I., Ropi, I., & Umam, S. 2024. “Religion and the Identity of Independent Indonesia: A Study on Religious Narratives According to the Founding Fathers”. Ulumuna, 28(2), 881-910.
Van Bruinessen, Martin. 2011. “What Happened to the Smiling Face of Indonesian Islam? Muslim Intellectualism and the Conservative Turn in Post-Suharto Indonesia.” Singapore: RSIS Working Paper No. 222, Nanyang Technological University.
Warburton, Eve and Edward Aspinall. 2019. “Explaining Indonesia’s Democratic Regression: Structure, Agency, and Popular Opinion.” Contemporary Southeast Asia 41:2, 255–85
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.