Islam and the State in Indonesia FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book explains the relationship between Islam and the state and politics in contemporary Indonesia. President Soeharto's departure from office in May 1998 brought tremendous and far-reaching impacts to Indonesia's political landscape. At least 181 new political parties came into being, a sizeable portion of which use Islam as their symbol and ideological basis.
SYNOPSIS
Effendy (Islamic State U., Jakarta; and U. of Indonesia) examines the emergence of a new wave of Islamic intellectualism in the 1980s, and the potential of this movement to overcome the traditional hostility that has tainted the political relationship between Islam and the Indonesian state. A central notion of his account is the poly- interpretability of Islam. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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