Improvisational IslamPub Date : 2018-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0004
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"Religion Unleashed","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Building on the previous chapter, this chapter argues that religious innovation among student activists has also been enabled by the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime in 1998. Unlike life during authoritarianism, democracy meant that religious identity is no longer subject to the same degree of microscopic governmental surveillance. People are able to try on different religious identities as they join various ideological groups at once, or move between them, and pursue different strategies to deal with the enlargement of secular liberal ideals in this context. The flurry of religious improvisation produces the counter-intuitive patterns of Islamists emerging from secular schools and liberal Muslims from madrasas.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"37 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":"127923892","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/9781501727856.003.0007
N. Ibrahim
{"title":"From Moderate Indonesia to Indonistan","authors":"N. Ibrahim","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501727856.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of Chapter 5 is how the acts of religious improvisation intersect with political attempts to present Indonesia internationally as a “moderate” Muslim nation that is different from the “despotic” and “chaotic” Middle East. Although Muslims of different ideological stripes are actually capitulating to the West and absorbing the ideals of secular liberalism, the moderate Muslim discourse identifies liberal Muslims as “good” believers while denouncing Islamists as “bad” believers in need of liberal salvation. Blaming violence and discrimination on “bad” religion, however, promotes the view of religion as bounded and coherent and overlooks the complex constellation of factors that produce social ills.","PeriodicalId":312778,"journal":{"name":"Improvisational Islam","volume":"8 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":"115539191","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}