Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia
Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia
Muslims currently struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws (including those derived from Islam, as well as contemporary ideas about gender equality and law) in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country. John Bowen explores their struggle through archival and ethnographic research and interviews with national religious and legal figures. His book relates to debates in any society where people struggle to live together with extreme differences in values and lifestyles and is welcomed by scholars and students in all branches of the social sciences.
- Indonesia is a critical place for study, being the world's largest Muslim-majority country
- An empirical analysis of a non-Western society brought to bear on current debates in political theory
- A unique combination of local-level ethnography, historical analysis of courtroom decisions, and the study of law's place in national debates
Reviews & endorsements
'… John Bowen has presented one of the most comprehensive studies of the workings of legal pluralism in Indonesia … impressive. This is indeed a book that should be read by all interested in the origins, processes and consequences of legal pluralism in Indonesia and the problems of gender equality and justice.' Asian Anthropology
'The latest volume of Bowen's Gayo trilogy is superb anthropology.' Rezensionen
Product details
June 2003Paperback
9780521531894
306 pages
229 × 152 × 16 mm
0.41kg
1 map 6 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Village Repertoires:
- 1. Law, religion and pluralism
- 2. Adat's local inequalities
- 3. Remapping Adat
- Part II. Reasoning Legally through Scripture:
- 4. The contours of the courts
- 5. The judicial history of 'consensus'
- 6. The poisoned gift
- 7. Historicizing scripture, justifying equality
- Part III. Governing Muslims through Family:
- 8. Whose word is law?
- 9. Gender equality in the family?
- 10. Justifying religious boundaries
- 11. Public reasoning across cultural pluralism.
