Fw: H-ASIA: Member publication "Islam in Contention: Rethinking of State and Islam in Indonesia"

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> H-ASIA
> January 4, 2011
>
> Member publication "Islam in Contention: Rethinking of State and Islam
> in Indonesia"
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> From: Atsushi Ota <ota@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I wish to announce the publication of _Islam in Contention: Rethinking of
> State and Islam in Indonesia_ (Jakarta: Wahid Institute, Kyoto: CSEAS, and
> Taipei: CAPAS, 2010; ISBN: 978-602-95295-3-1; x + 468pp), a book I
> co-edited with Okamoto Masaaki and Ahmad Suaedy.
>
> Over the last decade, Islamic awakening among people in large Muslim
> countries such as Indonesia has attracted attention. In Indonesia, Islam
> has become more deeply rooted in society while Islamic parties have been
> weakening, even as social conflicts over Islam have been gaining new
> intensity. Prevalent dichotomic views such as 'conservative vs. modern'
> and 'moderate vs. radical' have proved inadequate in efforts to better
> analyze these complicated developments. This book delves into the more
> diverse dynamism at play between current Islamic movements and the
> historical development of Islam in Indonesia.
>
> This five-part book starts with a correspondence between an Islamic leader
> and a sociologist regarding the relationship between Islam and the state.
> The next part discusses hot issues in contemporary Indonesian Islam, such
> as the implementation of Islamic bylaws, the formation of the Counter
> Legal Draft to Islamic Law Compilation, the law to regulate pornography,
> and collective violence against religious minorities. This is followed by
> a discussion of the strategies of three contrasting (so-called radical,
> moderate, and centrist) political institutions, that is, HTI, PKS, and the
> Yudhoyono government, to seek mass support. The next part discusses social
> Islamization, focuses on the groups susceptible to the Islamization in
> Indonesia (women and the Chinese), and the localization of Islam in
> Islamic medical healing. Finally the book questions the conventional view
> of the strong Islamic tradition in the Banten region. All the chapters
> provide new findings based on firsthand sources, either through
> interviews, including those conducted with controversial HTI and Ahmadiyah
> figures, or rigid examination of contemporary source materials.
>
> The contents are as follows:
>
> Introduction, Okamoto Masaaki, Ota Atsushi, and Ahmad Suaedy
>
> Part I: Islam and Social Justice
> 1. Islam and the State: The Social Justice Perspective, Masdar F Mas'udi
> 2. Islam and the State: Teachings and the Political Reality, Hsin-Huang
> Michael Hsiao
>
> Part II: Contemporary Contentions over Islam
> 3. Pancasila and the Perda Syari'ah Debates in the Post-Suharto Era:
> Toward a New Political Consensus, Abubakar Eby Hara
> 4. Reformation of Islamic Family Law in Post-New Order Indonesia: A Legal
> and Political Study of the Counter Legal Draft of the Islamic Law
> Compilation,
> Marzuki Wahid
> 5. The Pornography Law and the Politics of Sexuality, Abdur Rozaki
> 6. Religious Freedom and Violence in Indonesia, Ahmad Suaedy
>
> Part III: Strategies in Struggle
> 7. Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia: The Rhetorical Struggle for Survival, Fahlesa
> Munabari
> 8. The Rise of the 'Realistic' Islamist Party: PKS in Indonesia, Okamoto
> Masaaki
> 9. The Politics of Moderate Islam: From the Rise of Yudhoyono to the
> Ahmadiyah Decree, Sasaki Takuo
>
> Part IV: Discourse and Practice of Islam in Society
> 10. Ulama's Changing Perspectives on Women's Social Status: Nahdlatul
> Ulama's Legal Opinions, Kobayashi Yasuko
> 11. Contested Legacies of Chinese Muslims and the Appropriation of Zheng
> He's Muslim Images in Contemporary Indonesia, Syuan-yuan Chiou
> 12. Medical Theory and Practice of Tariqah: Islamic Healing and Religious
> Chant in Java, Tsung-Te Tsai
>
> Part V: Islam in a Region in the Longue Duree: The Case of Banten
> 13. Orthodoxy and Reconciliation: Islamic Strategies in the Kingdom of
> Banten, c. 1520-1813, Ota Atsushi
> 14. The Kiai in Banten: Shifting Roles in Changing Times, Abdul Hamid
>
> The book is distributed by the Wahid Institute in Jakarta. Interested
> parties may contact Alamsyah M. Dja'far, alam@wahidinstitute.org, or the
> undersigned, ota@gate.sinica.edu.tw
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Atsushi Ota
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> Atsushi Ota, Ph.D.
> Assistant Research Fellow
>
> Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies
> RCHSS, Academia Sinica
> 128 Academia Road, Section 2
> Nangang, 115 Taipei, Taiwan
> Tel: +886-(0)2-2652-3359
> E-mail: ota@gate.sinica.edu.tw
> Website: http://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/organization/t_05.htm
> http://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/capas/doc/researcher/researcher02.htm
>
>
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