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Entangled Pieties : Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Sociality in Java, Indonesia /

This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this eth...

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Main Authors: Chao, En-Chieh (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Islam.
Religion and sociology.
Gender identity > Religious aspects.
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Social Anthropology.
Sociology of Religion.
Religion and Society.
Religion and Gender.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48420-4
Summary: This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among moderate Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon entangled with gendered sociality and religious others, rather than a preordained outcome stemming from a closed religious tradition.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XV, 223 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319484204
Index Number: GN301
CLC: C912.4
Contents: 1. Introduction: Pieties in Contact, Everyday Conflict and Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Indonesia -- 2. Generating Religioisities: The entangled history of Islam and Christianity in Java -- 3. Engineering Horizons: Controversies over Landscaping and Belonging in Salatiga -- 4. Regendering Community: Women Reshaping Javanese Rites of Passage in Mixed Communities -- 5. Regendering Ethnicity: Pentecostal Gender Dynamics Reshaping Chinese Imageries -- 6. Performing Pluralism: Islamic Greetings, Christian Halal Food, and Religious Holidays -- 7. Conclusion: Not Just a Story about Tolerance.

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