The New Santri: Challenges to Traditional Religious Authority in Indonesia

Norshahril Saat, Ahmad Najib Burhani (eds.)

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9789814881470

Contents

PART I: CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY

2. Religious Authority in Indonesian Islam: Mainstream Organizations under Threat?,

3. “Being Authoritative But No Authority?” Muslim Religious Intellectuals in Shaping Indonesian Islam Discourse

4. New Contestation in Interpreting Religious Texts: Fatwa, Tafsir, and Shariah

5. Aceh’s Shariah Office: Bureaucratic Religious Authority and Social Development in Aceh

6. Muslim Female Authorities in Indonesia: Conservatism and Legal Notion of Women Preachers on Familial Issues

7. Mobilizing on Morality: Conservative Islamic Movements and Policy Impact in Contemporary Indonesia

PART II: TRANSNATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE

8. Salafism, Knowledge Production, and Religious Education in Indonesia

9. Opposing Wahhabism: The Emergence of Ultra-Traditionalism in Contemporary Indonesia

10. Nurturing Religious Authority among Tablighi Jamaat in Indonesia: Going Out for Khuruj and Becoming Preacher

11. Religious Education, Sufi Brotherhood, and Religious Authority: A Case Study of the Sulaimaniyah

PART III: THE NEW SANTRI

12. Pop and “True” Islam in Urban Pengajian: The Making of Religious Authority

13. The Rise of Cool Ustadz: Preaching, Subcultures, and the Pemuda Hijrah Movement

14. New Religious Preacher in the Changing Religious Authority: The Offline and Online Preacher of Ustadz Abdul Somad

15. Santri, Cinema and the Exploratory Form of Authority in Traditionalist Muslim Indonesia

16. The Politics of Religious and Cultural Authority: Contestation and Co-existence of Sultanate and Islamic Movements in the Post-Suharto Yogyakarta and Ternate

17. Jihad Against the Ghazwul Fikri: Actors and Mobilization Strategies of the Islamic Underground Movement