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- Among the first ethnographic accounts of Muslim-Christian relations from a gendered perspective
- Features first-hand stories of contact between conservative Muslims, “moderate” Muslims, Pentecostals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics
- Presents one of the first studies of everyday Muslim-Christian relationships in urban Java, focusing on the religiously mixed neighborhoods
Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)
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“Entangled Pieties is an important study of religion, ethnicity and gendered social relations in contemporary Indonesia. It is a detailed study of Muslim-Christian relationsin a Central Javanese city, tacking between the analysis of national level Muslim-Christian discourse centered on and the details of inter-group relations in daily life. It is a model for the study of inter-religious relationships not just in Indonesia but in other societies where religious diversity is a social fact.” (Mark Woodward, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizonan State University, USA)
“In Indonesian studies and in the anthropology of religion in general, Islam and Christianity are typically studied in isolation. In this elegantly written and theoretically subtle ethnography of Christian-Muslim relations in Central Java, En-Chieh Chao demonstrates just why it is important to study the two faith communities, not in isolation, but in entangled interaction. Entangled Pieties also offers insights into the challenge and possibility of pluralist co-existence across faith communities. For this and other reasons, this fine book deserves to be read, not only by Indonesianists, but everyone interested in religious pluralism and ‘tolerance’ today.” (Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, USA)
“This important intersectional study explores how differing and changing religions, including Pentecostalism and self-designated Salafi Islam, ethnicity, and gender shape newly-emerging social forms in Central Java, and, most importantly, how people weave cross-cutting sociabilities.” (John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Lewis, USA)
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Book Title: Entangled Pieties
Book Subtitle: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Sociality in Java, Indonesia
Authors: En-Chieh Chao
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48420-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48419-8Published: 14 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83938-7Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48420-4Published: 03 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 223
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Gender, Islam