Becoming Better Muslims : : Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia /

Becoming Better Muslims : : Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia / / David Kloos.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Kloos, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ; 66
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 7 halftones. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Italicization
  • Map of Aceh
  • Introduction: Inner Islam and the Problem of Acehnese Exceptionalism
  • History and the Imagining of Pious Aceh
  • The Limits of Normative Islam
  • Village Society and the Problem of Moral Authority
  • Islamic Scripturalism and Everyday Life after the Disaster
  • Becoming Better Muslims: Sinning, Repentance, Improvement
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • References
  • Index

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