Islam and the Limits of the State - Reconfigurations of Practice, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh

This book examines the complex relationships between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia.

About the author

R. Michael Feener is Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His previous publications on Aceh include Shariʿa and Social Engineering, and (with Patrick Daly & Anthony Reid), Mapping the Acehnese Past, and From the Ground Up.

David Kloos, Ph.D. (2013), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden and has conducted extensive historical and ethnographic research on Islam in Aceh.

Annemarie Samuels, Ph.D. (2012), is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on the post-tsunami reconstruction process in Aceh. Her work has been published previously in, amongst others, American Anthropologist and Anthropology Today.

Product details

• Assisted by: R Michael Feener (Editor), R. Michael Feener (Editor), David Kloos (Editor), Annemarie Samuels (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2015
• EAN: 9789004304857
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30485-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and So
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous