Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia : : Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties / / Georg Stauth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Stauth, Georg,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Globaler lokaler Islam
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)

This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond »ideas«. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of »Islamization« are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Renaissance, Civilization, Mediterranée: Islam and the Challenge of Modernity in Southeast Asia -- 2. Indonesia – Malaysia: Structures of Embeddedness of Islam and the Multi-Ethnic Condition of Asia -- 3. Bureaucratism and Proto-Institutionalization of Islam in the Minangkabau Region of West Sumatra -- 4. Java Islam: Civil Society and Symbolic Politics of Tradition -- 5. Malaysia: Democracy and State-Islam -- 6. The Singapore Civilization -- 7. Asian Crisis and the End of Islamization? -- Bibliography -- Backmatter