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This portrait of a changing peasantry is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. He describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre-colonial times to the Green Revolution today.

Rural development --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Tengger Mountains Region (Indonesia) --- Java (Indonesia) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities. --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Djawa (Indonesia) --- Jawa (Indonesia) --- Pulau Jawa (Indonesia) --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Greater Sunda Islands --- Rural development - Indonesia - Tengger Mountains Region (Java)

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There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading specialists focusing on individual countries, this pioneering book examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. Although depicted by its opponents as the product of political ideas "made in the West" civil-democratic Islam represents an indigenous politics that seeks to build a distinctive Islamic modernity. In countries like Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia, it has become a major political force. Elsewhere its influence is apparent in efforts to devise Islamic grounds for women's rights, religious tolerance, and democratic citizenship. Everywhere it has generated fierce resistance from religious conservatives. Examining this high-stakes clash, Remaking Muslim Politics breaks new ground in the comparative study of Islam and democracy. The contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas Barfield, John R. Bowen, Dale F. Eickelman, Robert W. Hefner, Peter Mandaville, Augustus Richard Norton, Gwenn Okruhlik, Michael G. Peletz, Diane Singerman, Jenny B. White, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Islam and politics --- Islamic renewal --- Religion and politics --- Islamic countries --- Politics and government --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Reform --- Renewal --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah

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This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

Conversion --- Christian converts --- Missions --- Religion and politics --- Religion and culture --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religions --- Christian missions --- Missions, Foreign --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- Christians --- Converts --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- History --- Anthropological aspects --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Christian converts. --- Religion and politics. --- Religion and culture. --- Anthropology --- Christianity. --- Anthropological aspects. --- anthropology. --- buddhism. --- central australia. --- chinese conversion. --- christian conversion. --- christian theology. --- christianity. --- church community. --- colonialism. --- commitment. --- community. --- conversion. --- faith. --- institutional church. --- jesuit mission program. --- jesus movement. --- morality. --- muslim java. --- northern mexico. --- papua new guinea. --- philosophy. --- political economy. --- rationality. --- religion. --- religious change. --- religious conversion. --- religious identity. --- sociology. --- southern african religious history. --- world religions.

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Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond. Democratic in the early 1950's and with rich precedents for tolerance and civility, Indonesia succumbed to violence. In 1965, Muslim parties were drawn into the slaughter of half a million communists. In the aftermath of this bloodshed, a "New Order" regime came to power, suppressing democratic forces and instituting dictatorial controls that held for decades. Yet from this maelstrom of violence, repressed by the state and denounced by conservative Muslims, an Islamic democracy movement emerged, strengthened, and played a central role in the 1998 overthrow of the Soeharto regime. In 1999, Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid was elected President of a reformist, civilian government. In explaining how this achievement was possible, Robert Hefner emphasizes the importance of civil institutions and public civility, but argues that neither democracy nor civil society is possible without a civilized state. Against portrayals of Islam as inherently antipluralist and undemocratic, he shows that Indonesia's Islamic reform movement repudiated the goal of an Islamic state, mobilized religiously ecumenical support, promoted women's rights, and championed democratic ideals. This broadly interdisciplinary and timely work heightens our awareness of democracy's necessary pluralism, and places Indonesia at the center of our efforts to understand what makes democracy work.

Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural anthropology. --- Indonesian. --- Religion. --- Psychology -- Identity -- Cultural identity. --- Politics. --- Government -- Government models -- Democracy. --- Religion -- Religious faiths -- Islam. --- Dewan Da'wah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII). --- Indonesian armed forces (ABRI). --- Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). --- Indonesia. --- Asian studies. --- Modernity. --- Modernization. --- Democracy --Religious aspects --Islam. --- Indonesia --Politics and government --1966-1998. --- Indonesia --Politics and government --1998-. --- Islam and politics --Indonesia. --- Islam and state --Indonesia. --- N.U. (Organization). --- Islam and state --- Islam and politics --- Democracy --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- N.U. (Organization) --- Indonesia --- Politics and government --- Islam and state - Indonesia. --- Islam and politics - Indonesia. --- Democracy - Religious aspects - Islam. --- Indonesia - Politics and government - 1966-1998. --- Indonesia - Politics and government - 1998 --- -Islam and state - Indonesia. --- -Democracy --Religious aspects --Islam.

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Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, the sixth and final volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. Robert Hefner's thought-provoking account of the political and intellectual transformation of the Muslim world introduces the volume, which proceeds with twenty-five essays by luminaries in their fields through a broad range of topics. These include developments in society and population, religious thought and Islamic law, Muslim views of modern politics and economics, education and the arts, cinema and new media. The essays, which highlight the diversity and richness of Islamic civilization, engage with regions outside the Middle East as well as within Islam's historic heartland. Narratives are clear and absorbing and will fascinate all those curious about the momentous changes that have taken place among the world's 1.4 billion Muslims in the last two centuries.

Islamic civilization. --- Islamic countries --- History.