What Is Religious Authority? - Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia

Zusatztext "Alatas’ general insight might be extended to any societal and cultural configuration. This makes his monograph relevant well beyond the boundaries of the study of Javanese or Indonesian Islam, and, in fact, beyond the study of Islam or religion in general. . . . [a] layered, important book" ---Matteo Bortolini, Reading Religion Zusammenfassung An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders u

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• Authors: Ismail Fajrie Alatas
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780691204307
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20430-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, Yemen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Religion & politics, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, Indonesia, Religion and Politics, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects