This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon entangled with gendered sociality and religious others, rather than a preordained outcome stemming from a self-contained religious tradition.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: En-Chieh Chao
EAN: 9783319484198
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 4149 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-08-14
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GENRE: RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology, Social and cultural anthropology, Islam
En-Chieh Chao is Assistant Professor of Sociology at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
