Islamic Post-Traditionalism: Postcolonial and Postmodern Religious Discourse in Indonesia
Taking a critical view of the dominance of postcolonial studies by South Asian and Latin American scholars and intellectuals, this article presents a newly emerging discourse among young Indonesian Muslim intellectuals, known as Islamic Post-Traditionalism. The specific question addressed in the p...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2015]
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Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 473-489 |
RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam KBM Asia VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Islam
B RELIGION IN INDONESIA B Islamic Post-Traditionalism B Postmodernity B Contemporary Muslim thought B Postcoloniality B Indonesia |
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Summary: | Taking a critical view of the dominance of postcolonial studies by South Asian and Latin American scholars and intellectuals, this article presents a newly emerging discourse among young Indonesian Muslim intellectuals, known as Islamic Post-Traditionalism. The specific question addressed in the present investigation is to establish to what extent this strand of Muslim thought can be considered a contribution to the engagement with postcoloniality and an application of deconstructionist discourse critique developed by postmodern philosophers within the context of rethinking religion, and Islam in particular, in Indonesia. Identifying a vivid interest among Indonesian Muslim intellectuals in the work of pioneering and controversial contemporary Arab-Islamic thinkers such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri, and Mohammed Arkoun, this article will interrogate the influences exercised by these Arabophone and Francophone Muslim intellectuals on the formation of Indonesia's Islamic Post-Traditionalism and how this is reflected in this discourse. An illustration will be provided by a précis of the writings of a key exponent of the Islamic Post-Traditionalist discourse and an examination of a number of other contributors. |
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ISSN: | 1873-930X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-014-0434-0 |