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Book SynopsisIn this landmark account, Nur Amali Ibrahim paints a nuanced, detailed portrait of students seeking to reconcile some of the major social forces that inflect everyday life across the Muslim world—Islam, liberalism, radicalism, and secularism—as they strive to both find and define their place in a fast-changing, democratizing nation. Ibrahim demonstrates the critical importance of scholarly attention in both anthropology and religious studies to this vibrant country—the world’s largest Muslim nation.
?Daromir Rudnyckyj, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, and author of the award-winning Spiritual Economies
Improvisational Islam is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts.
Nur Amali Ibrahim foregrounds two distinct autodidactic university student organizations, each
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Situated in the body of work on Islam in Indonesia, Nur Amali's approach in Improvisational Islam is refreshing. Nur Amali uses a strong anthropological research method, conducting in-depth interviews with youths, participant observation and lengthy field research.
* SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Tremblingness of Youths
2. Religion Unleashed
3. Accounting for the Soul
4. Playing with Scriptures
5. From Moderate Indonesia to Indonistan
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
