Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia

by Donald J. Porter

This book examines the politics of Islam and the state in Indonesia over recent decades, during which time there has been a notable resurgence of Islamic political movements. It argues that after a period in the late 1980s and 1990s, when the state worked to bring religious authority and institutions within state-prescribed limits in order to support the official state ideology and political stability, there was a change whereby Suharto incorporated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415515386
• ISBN13: 9780415515382
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"