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Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning »
Authors: John Richard Bowen
ISBN-13: 9780521824828, ISBN-10: 0521824826
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: John Richard Bowen
John R. Bowen is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and Chair of the Program in Social Thought and Analysis at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of Sumatran Politics and Poetics (1991), Muslims through Discourse (1993), Religions through Practice (2nd edition 2001), and the co-editor of Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Book Synopsis
How Muslims in Indonesia struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | ||
| List of tables | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Glossary | ||
| Pt. 1 | Village repertoires | |
| 1 | Law, religion, and pluralism | 3 |
| 2 | Adat's local inequalities | 22 |
| 3 | Remapping adat | 44 |
| Pt. 2 | Reasoning legally through scripture | |
| 4 | The contours of the courts | 67 |
| 5 | The judicial history of "consensus" | 89 |
| 6 | The poisoned gift | 123 |
| 7 | Historicizing scripture, justifying equality | 147 |
| Pt. 3 | Governing Muslims through family | |
| 8 | Whose word is law? | 173 |
| 9 | Gender equality in the family? | 200 |
| 10 | Justifying religious boundaries | 229 |
| 11 | Public reasoning across cultural pluralism | 253 |
| References | 269 | |
| Index | 283 |
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