Rebranding Islam - Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru

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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. Zusammenfassung Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar! known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym)! rose to fame via nationally televised sermons! best-selling books! and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader and his message of Sufi ideas blended with Western pop psychology and management theory to examine new trends in the religious and economic desires of an aspiring middle class! the political predicaments bridging self and state! and the broader themes of religious authority! economic globalization! and the end(s) of political Islam. At Gymnastiar's Islamic school! television studios! and MQ Training complex! Hoesterey observed this charismatic preacher developing a training regimen called Manajemen Qolbu into Indonesia's leading self-help program via nationally televised sermons! best-selling books! and corporate training seminars. Hoesterey's analysis explains how Gymnastiar articulated and mobilized Islamic idioms of ethics and affect as a way to offer self-help solutions for Indonesia's moral! economic! and political problems. Hoesterey then shows how! after Aa Gym's fall! the former celebrity guru was eclipsed by other television preachers in what is the ever-changing mosaic of Islam in Indonesia. Although Rebranding Islam tells the story of one man! it is also an anthropology of Islamic psychology. 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

James Hoesterey, James Bourk Hoesterey, Hoesterey James Publisher Stanford University Press   Languages English Product format Paperback / Softback Released 30.11.2015   EAN 9780804796378 ISBN 978-0-8047-9637-8 No. of pages 296 Series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Studies of the Walter H. Shore
Studies of the Walter H. Shore
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous