Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia: Essays on State, Society, and Public Creeds - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097740420X ISBN 13: 9780977404209

Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS, 2006

Synopsis

This comparative exploration looks at religion and politics in the social dynamics of Southeast Asia's two most populous nations. The Philippines and Indonesia are treated as one vast "Phil-Indo" archipelago. Eight leading scholars contribute interwoven and contending essays. The authors find that while neither country promotes a state religion, both lack partitions between church and state. Social dynamics of faith in each elude constitutional restrictions. In the Philippines, a Spanish tradition of an ecclesiastical state exists in tension with a Jeffersonian notion of separation of realms. In Indonesia, pre-Islamic concepts of a god-king fuse state and society, as modern initiatives surge from the premise of a prevailing Islamic community. Official religiosity pervades Indonesian national life, while Filipinos act out their private religiosity en masse, trying to overcome deficiencies in state and church. The book includes 38 photographs, in color and black and white, with commentaries that further illustrate the themes of each chapter. Contributors include Azyumardi Azra (University Islam Negeri, Indonesia), Jose M. Cruz (Ateneo de Manila University,The Philippines), Donald K. Emmerson (Institute for International Studies, Stanford University) Theodore Friend (Foreign Policy Research Institute), Robert W. Hefner (Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University),Vicente Leuterio Rafael (University of Washington), Jose Eliseao Rocamora (Institute for Popular Democracy,The Philippines) and David Joel Steinberg (Long Island University).

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Friend is a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia. He is president emeritus and trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships, where he served as president (1984-96), and former president of Swarthmore College (1973-82). His most recent book is Indonesian Destinies (Harvard University Press, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 097740420X
• ISBN 13: 9780977404209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Friend Theodore