Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia
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Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia
By (Author) David Kloos
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
5th February 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Islamic life and practice
Ethics and moral philosophy
Asian history
297.09598/11
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
Description
How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the state and religion Becoming Better Muslims offers an innovative account of the dynamic interactions between individual Muslims, religious authorities, and the state in Aceh, Indonesia. Relying on extensive historical and ethnographic
Reviews
"Winner of the EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies"
"Becoming Better Muslims is an important contribution to the study of state-Islam relations in Indonesia and beyond. It is beautifully written and therefore provides easy access to a complex topic."---Michael Buehler, Politics, Religion & Ideology
"Kloos and Hews beautifully written ethnographies present different faces of Indonesian Islam that are equally complex, contrasting and plural in their own ways."---Charlotte Setijadi, Contemporary Southeast Asia
Author Bio
David Kloos is a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden.
