Gender and power in Indonesian Islam : leaders, feminists, Sufis and pesantren selves /

"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 categ...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Smith, Bianca J. (Editor), Woodward, Mark R., 1952- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:ASAA women in Asia series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • De-colonizing Islam and Muslim feminism / Bianca J. Smith and Mark Woodward
  • Between Sufi and Salafi subjects : contested female leadership, spiritual power and gender matters in Lombok / Bianca J. Smith and Saipul Hamdi
  • Leadership and authority : women leading dayah in Aceh / Asna Husin
  • Gender in contemporary Acehnese dayah : moving beyond docile agency? / Eka Srimulyani
  • When wahyu comes through women : female spiritual authority and divine revelation in mystical groups and pesantren-Sufi orders / Bianca J. Smith
  • Reframing the gendered dimension of Islamic spirituality : silsilah and the "problem" of female leadership in tarekat / Asfa Widiyanto
  • Interpreting and enacting Islamic feminism in Pesantren Al-Muayyad Windan / Saipul Hamdi
  • Women's negotiation of status and space in a Muslim fundamentalist movement / Inayah Rohmaniyah
  • The tawdry tale of Syech Puji and Lutfiana : child marriage and polygamy on the boundary of the pesantren world / Mark Woodward and Inayah Rohmanyiah
  • Constructing sexuality in a panopticon pesantren / Mustaghrioh Rahayu.