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Zusatztext "This edited book is a very welcome addition to the growing corpus of work on gender in Islamic contemporary Indonesia. It is one of the first books on gender relations in pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) and many of the papers focus on the much neglected topic of women in pesantren."Lyn Parker! The University of Western AustraliaAsian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 655-657"Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam provides many fascinating insights about the paradoxes of contemporary Indonesia...Scholars interested in religion! gender! and cultural change will find this book helpful."Andy Scott Chang! University of California! Berkeley. Journal of International and Global Studies Informationen zum Autor Bianca J. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and an Honorary Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. Mark Woodward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA. Klappentext This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren (traditional Islamic boarding schools) and Sufi orders in Indonesia. Pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia and this book demonstrates how Muslim women rise to positions of power and authority in this patriarchal domain, challenging and negotiating "normative" Muslim patriarchy while establishing their own Muslim "authenticity." The book explores female leadership, power, feminisms and sexuality to reveal that pesantren and Sufi orders are not only centres of learning, but also social spaces in which the interplay of gender, politics, status, power and piety shape the course of life. Zusammenfassung The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By considering these distinct but related Muslim gender cultures in Java, Lombok and Aceh, the book examines the broader function of pesantren as a force for both redefining existing modes of Muslim subjectivity and cultivating new ones. It demonstrates how, as Muslim women rise to positions of power and authority in this patriarchal domain, they challenge and negotiate "normative" Muslim patriarchy while establishing their own Muslim "authenticity." The book goes on to question the comparison of Indonesian Islam with the Arab Middle East, challenging the adoption of expatriate and diasporic Middle Eastern Muslim feminist discourses and secular western feminist analyses in Indonesian contexts. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores configurations of female leadership, power, feminisms and sexuality to reveal multiple Muslim selves in pesantren and Sufi orders, not only as centres of learning, but also as social spaces in which the interplay of gender, politics, status, power and piety shape the course of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: De-colonizing Islam and Muslim feminism Part 1: Female Leadership and Muslim Agency 1. Between Sufi and Salafi Subjects: Contested female leadership, spiritual power and gender matters in Lombok 2. Leadership and Authority: Women leading dayah in Aceh 3. Gender in Contemporary Acehnese Dayah : Moving beyond docile agency? Part 2: Female Spiritual Authority in Sufi Orders and Mystical Groups 4. When Wahyu Comes through Women: Female spiritual authority and divine revelation in mystical groups and pesantren-Sufi orders 5. Reframing the Gendered Dimension of Islamic Spirituality: Silsilah and the ‘problem’ of female leadership in tarekat Part 3: Muslim Feminisms: Islamic and Islamist orientati...
