Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia : Women's Rights Movements, Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions

Susanne Schroeter

ISBN 10: 9004311858 / ISBN 13: 9789004311855

Published by Brill Jan 2016, 2016

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Neuware - The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia and contributes on current debates on gender and Islam.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia : Women's Rights Movements, Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions
• Publisher: Brill Jan 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004311858
• ISBN 13: 9789004311855
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 157H x 20D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 496 grams

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Synopsis

The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia, which besides the Islamic core countries of Malaysia and Indonesia also comprises southern Thailand and Mindanao (the Philippines). The authors trace the impact of national development programmes, modernization, globalization, and political conflicts on the local and national gender regimes in the twentieth century, and elaborate on the consequences of the revitalization of a conservative type of Islam. The book, thus, elucidates the boundary lines of cultural and political processes of negotiation related to state, society, and community. It employs a broad analytical framework, offers rich empirical data and gives new insights into current debates on gender and Islam.

Contributors include Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Farish A. Noor, Siti Musdah Mulia, Amporn Marddent, Maila Stivens, Alexander Horstmann, Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Monika Arnez, Susanne Schröter, Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Vivienne S.M. Angeles and Birte Brecht-Drouart.

About the Author

Susanne Schröter, PhD (1994) in Anthropology, is Professor of Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published on religion, gender and culture including the edited volume Christianity in Indonesia (Berlin 2010) and the co-edited volume (together with Arndt Graf and Edwin Wieringa) Aceh. History, politics, and culture (Singapore 2010).