Robert W. Hefner
Auteur de Civil Islam : Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
A propos de l'auteur
Robert W. Hefner is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University.
Crédit image: Center for American Progress
Œuvres de Robert W. Hefner
Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation (1993) 23 exemplaires
The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (2001) 17 exemplaires
Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia (1997) 16 exemplaires
Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal (1998) 3 exemplaires
Religions in Movement: The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions (Routledge Studies in Religion) (2013) 3 exemplaires
Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Hinduism in modern Indonesia : a minority religion between local, national, and global interests (2003) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hefner, Robert William
- Date de naissance
- 1952-05-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Études
- University of Michigan (BA|1974; MA|1976; PhD|1981)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 253
- Popularité
- #90,475
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 68
- Langues
- 2
Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond.
Democratic in the early 1950s and with rich precedents for tolerance and civility, Indonesia succumbed to violence. In 1965, Muslim parties were drawn into the slaughter of half a million communists. In the aftermath of this bloodshed, a "New Order" regime came to power, suppressing democratic forces and instituting dictatorial controls that held for decades. Yet from this maelstrom of violence, repressed by the state and denounced by conservative Muslims, an Islamic democracy movement emerged, strengthened, and played a central role in the 1998 overthrow of the Soeharto regime. In 1999, Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid was elected President of a reformist, civilian government.
In explaining how this achievement was possible, Robert Hefner emphasizes the importance of civil institutions and public civility, but argues that neither democracy nor civil society is possible without a Robertized state. Against portrayals of Islam as inherently antipluralist and undemocratic, he shows that Indonesia's Islamic reform movement repudiated the goal of an Islamic state, mobilized religiously ecumenical support, promoted women's rights, and championed democratic ideals. This broadly interdisciplinary and timely work heightens our awareness of democracy's necessary pluralism, and places Indonesia at the center of our efforts to understand what makes democracy work.… (plus d'informations)