{"title":"3. Accounting for the Soul","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501727870-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727870-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133660337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0001
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents ethnographic vignettes of young Indonesian Muslims behaving in religious unorthodox ways, as they mix their religious practices with secular liberal techniques. It introduces the book’s primary questions, subjects, and historical context.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116975275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0006
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"Playing with Scriptures","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the religious socialization among liberal Muslims in the post-Suharto era. Liberal Muslims want to inject values like individual autonomy, gender equality, and human rights into Islam, and do so by reading the Islamic scriptures through the lens of the Western human sciences. These activities occur in private study settings that permit insults, jokes, laughter, and play, which render religious doctrines vulnerable and thus ultimately changeable.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125194614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0003
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"The Tremblingness of Youths","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the student organizations where fieldwork was conducted and the data collection methods used, and introduces some of the student activists whose stories recur throughout the book. Dominant historical narratives portray such youths as key agents of Indonesian nationalism, which is why young people in Indonesia have long been permitted to feel a sense of tremblingness, or that quivering, can’t-hold-back, impatient desire to change their society and nation. This enduring youthful capacity for tremblingness propels contemporary acts of religious improvisation.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123107364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0008
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers some closing reflections. It asserts that Muslims are working hard to accommodate secular liberal ideals in their religious practices and challenges Western secular liberals to work equally hard to accommodate Muslims and other religious people. It concludes by arguing that our shared existence cannot be improved by putting Islam on one side and the West on the other, Muslims on one side and Western secular liberals on the other, “good” Muslims on one side and “bad” Muslims on the other, religion on one side and secularism on the other.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122501026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0005
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"Accounting for the Soul","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the religious socialization among conservative Islamists in the post-Suharto era. Islamists want to groom ultra-orthodox believers who are punctilious about ritual performances—persons seemingly different from the secular liberal subject. Yet, Islamists utilize accounting and auditing technologies from the business world because they find them useful for creating the self-governing believer. Although Islamists have at times rejected democracy, there are democratic impulses in their religious improvisation. By forming devout and auditable subjects, Islamists hope to lay the foundation for the creation of a transparent, corruption-free, and pious nation before God.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134286005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}