Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

In 1998, Indonesia's military government collapsed, creating a crisis that many believed would derail its democratic transition. Yet the world's most populous Muslim country continues to receive high marks from democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine Indonesia's transition compared to Chile, Spain, India, and potentially Tunisia, and democratic failures in Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iran. Chapters explore religion and politics and Muslims' support for democracy before change.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsChronologyPart I. Introduction1. Indonesian Democratization in Theoretical Perspective by Mirjam Kunkler and Alfred Stepan2. Indonesian Democracy: From Transition to Consolidation by R. William Liddle and Saiful MujaniPart II. Attitudes: The Development of a Democratic Consensus by Religious and Political Actors3. How Pluralist Democracy Became the Consensual Discourse Among Secular and Nonsecular Muslims in Indonesia by Mirjam Kunkler4. Christian and Muslim Minorities in Indonesia: State Policies and Majority Islamic Organizations by Franz Magnis-SusenoPart III. Behaviors: Challenges to the Democratic Transition and State and Their Transcendence5. Veto Player No More? The Declining Political Influence of the Military in Postauthoritarian Indonesia by Marcus Mietzner6. Indonesian Government Approaches to Radical Islam Since 1998 by Sidney Jones7. How Indonesia Survived: Comparative Perspectives on State Disintegration and Democratic Integration by Edward AspinallPart IV. Constitutionalism: The Role of Law and Legal Pluralism8. Contours of Sharia in Indonesia by John Bowen9. Unfinished Business: Law Reform by Tim Lindsey and Simon ButtGlossaryNotesSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

About the author

Mirjam Kunkler is assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University.

Product details

• Authors: Mirjam Kunkler, Mirjam (EDT)/ Stepan Kunkler, Mirjam Stepan Kunkler
• Assisted by: Mirjam K?nkler (Editor), Mirjam Kunkler (Editor), Mirjam Künkler (Editor), Alfred Stepan (Editor), Stepan Alfred (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2013
• EAN: 9780231161916
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16191-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, RELIGION / Islam / History, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Indonesia