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By: Robert W. Hefner

ISBN: 9780691050478
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Robert W. Hefner

ISBN: 9780691028569
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.


(Paperback)

By: Robert W. Hefner

ISBN: 9780691120935
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. This book is a comparative study of Islam and democracy. The contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas Barfield, John R Bowen, Dale F Eickelman, and more.


(Paperback)

By: Robert W. Hefner

ISBN: 9780691129334
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. This work examines the varieties of modern Muslim education and their implications for national and global politics. It describes that Islamic education is neither traditional nor medieval, but rather complex.