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Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia, an anthropology of public reasoning, John R. Bowen

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Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia, an anthropology of public reasoning, John R. Bowen

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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57254215

Responsibility statement

John R. Bowen

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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an anthropology of public reasoning

Summary

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and rule of law. In this 2003 study, John Bowen explores this struggle, through archival and ethnographic research in villages and courtrooms of the Aceh Province, Sumatra, and through interviews with national religious and legal figures. He analyses the social frameworks for disputes about land, inheritance, marriage, divorce, Islamic History and, more broadly, about the relationships between the state and Islam, and between Muslims and non-Muslims. The book speaks to debates carried out in all societies about how people can live together with their deep differences in values and ways of life. It will be welcomed by scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, cultural sociology and political theory.--, Provided by publisher

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Islam, Law, & Equality in Indonesia

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