Hearing Allah's Call : : Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam / / Julian Millie.

Hearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transcription
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Preaching Diversity in Bandung
  • Chapter 2. The Unique Voice . . . and Its Travails
  • Chapter 3. Preaching "without Performing"
  • Chapter 4. The Languages of Preaching in the Islamic Public Sphere
  • Chapter 5. The Listening Audience Laughs and Cries, the Writing Public Thinks
  • Chapter 6. A Feminized Domain
  • Chapter 7. Public Contest and the Pragmatics of Performance
  • Chapter 8. Standing Up for Listening
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Wedding Sermon by Al-Jauhari
  • Appendix B. Sunday Study Sermon by Shiddiq Amien
  • Appendix C. Translation of Excerpt of Sermon by A. F. Ghazali
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index