Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia - Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-Nineties

This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond »ideas«. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of »Islamization« are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.

About the author

Georg Stauth lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Bielefeld und leitet eine Forschergruppe zu »Heiligen Orten« im Sonderforschungsbereich »Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte« an der Universität Mainz.

Product details

• Authors: Georg Stauth
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2002
• EAN: 9783933127815
• ISBN: 978-3-933127-81-5
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: global / local islam; Globaler lokaler Islam; Globaler lokaler Islam; Global Local Islam; Global/Local Islam
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Soziologie, Geschichte, Islam, Südostasien, 1990 bis 1999 n. Chr., Kulturwissenschaften, Andere Weltreligionen, Religion, allgemein, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Islam: Leben und Praxis, Weltreligionen / Islam, Islam; Islamic Studies; Modernisierung; Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Südostasien