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  • Muslims, the New Age and Marginal Religions in Indonesia: Changing Meanings of Religious Pluralism

    Author(s)
    Howell, Julia
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Howell, Julia D.
    Year published
    2005
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    Abstract
    The author examines the changing meanings of religious pluralism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia. She demonstrates the paradoxical viability of three new organizations - Salamullah, the Brahma Kumaris and the Anand Ashram - that challenge normative conceptions of 'religion' embodied in national law since the 1960s but nonetheless attract substantial numbers of cosmopolitan Indonesians, including religiously well-educated Muslims. The high modern construction of 'religions' that underpins existing law is being reworked in the actual religious practice of cosmopolitan Indonesians. With their ...
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    The author examines the changing meanings of religious pluralism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia. She demonstrates the paradoxical viability of three new organizations - Salamullah, the Brahma Kumaris and the Anand Ashram - that challenge normative conceptions of 'religion' embodied in national law since the 1960s but nonetheless attract substantial numbers of cosmopolitan Indonesians, including religiously well-educated Muslims. The high modern construction of 'religions' that underpins existing law is being reworked in the actual religious practice of cosmopolitan Indonesians. With their patronage they are expanding the sphere of internal dialogue within Indonesia's Muslim community, effecting a new permeability in the boundaries of the nation's official religions, and contributing to the emergence of an arena of unregulated 'spiritual' groups that now exists alongside the highly regulated, rigidly denominational religious market structured by the New Order Government (1966-1998).
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    Journal Title
    Social Compass
    Volume
    52
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://scp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/4/473
    Copyright Statement
    © 2005 Sage Publications. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. First published in Social Compass. This journal is available online: http://scp.sagepub.com/content/vol52/issue4/
    Subject
    Sociology
    Religion and Religious Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4637
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