Tomeki

Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam

Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam

By Bianca J. Smith,Mark Woodward

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Publish Date

2013

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Language

eng

Pages

208

Description:

"This book discusses the understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. It contributes to the decolonization of the anthropology of Islam in Indonesia, confronting ideological and intellectual tropes of (neo)-colonialism in two ways. Firstly, it deconstructs categories denying the "authenticity" of Indonesian Islams on the basis of comparison with the Arab Middle East, and secondly, it critically examines the salience of expatriate and diasporic Middle Eastern Muslim feminist discourses and secular western feminist analyses in Indonesian contexts"--