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Zusatztext "James Bourk Hoesterey's Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru is an incisive analysis of the formation of religious authority, Islamic subjectivities, and politics in post-authoritarian Indonesia...Hoesterey reveals a type of political Islam beyond the creation of an Islamic State, and its ability to exist within a democracy. He complicates the composition of subjectivities and helps us reconsider the way in which genealogies of knowledge, such as psychological knowledge, and practice create religious authority that cannot be reduced to Western or Islamic roots." Informationen zum Autor James B. Hoesterey is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory University. Klappentext James B. Hoesterey is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory University. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents and Abstracts Introduction: Authority, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Public Piety chapter abstract The Introduction frames the book in terms of the anthropology of psychology and it within theoretical conversations concerning religious authority, Muslim subjectivity, and the cultural politics of public piety. It argues that Aa Gym garnered religious authority through adept use of media and the deliberate cultivation of his personal brand in the religious marketplace of modernity. His authority was marked by distinctive affective and economic relationships between preacher-producer and consuming devotees. It also argues that Islamic self-help psychology promotes models of personhood that are commensurate with, but cannot be reduced to, neoliberal logics of self-enterprise and democratic notions of civic virtue. Aa Gym also leveraged his public pulpit into political voice in an attempt to discipline state actors during the drafting of controversial anti-pornography legislation. The Introduction argues that scholarly understandings of political Islam must focus on popular culture, not simply electoral politics and formal institutions. 1 Branding Islam: Autobiography, Authenticity, and Religious Authority chapter abstract Known across the Indonesian archipelago as a shrewd entrepreneur, doting husband, and virtuous family man, Gymnastiar legitimated his claim to religious authority through his ability to market himself as the embodiment of Islamic virtue. This chapter/////// 2 Enchanting Science: Popular Psychology as Religious Wisdom chapter abstract 3 Ethical Entrepreneurs: Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism chapter abstract 4 Prophetic Cosmopolitanism: The Prophet Muhammad as Psycho-Civic exemplar chapter abstract 5 Shaming the State: Pornography and the Moral Psychology of Statecraft chapter abstract 6 Sin...
