Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia

By Unknown Author.

Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia

Description

Since the late 1970s, Southeast Asia's Muslim population has experienced an unprecedented religious revival. This resurgence has created a new kind of Islamic discourse, one oriented to the needs of a broad public rather than to narrow circles of religious adepts. This text examines the history, politics and meanings of this resurgence in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It explores the implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West. The opening chapters document relations between the state and prominent Islamic political organizations. A second group of...

ISBN(s)

0824819578, 9780824819576

REVIEWS (0) -

No reviews posted yet.

WRITE A REVIEW

Please login to write a review.