Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

by Carool Kersten

Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after a fatwa issued by conservative religious scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190247770
• ISBN13: 9780190247775
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"