Ridwan's conversion: kandoeri giving, moral personhood, and the re-imagining of communal difference in Indonesia
This article brings religious conversion and religious giving under one analytic lens in examining how Ridwan', a Chinese-Indonesian convert to Islam from the Indonesian province of Aceh, describes the process through which he became a Muslim. Ridwan frames his account of conversion in terms o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2020]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-91 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Indonesia
/ Interreligiosity
/ Islam
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Gift
/ Individual ethics
/ Interculturality
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Moral Person
B Islam B religious giving B Conversion B Indonesia B interreligious difference / intercommunal |
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| Summary: | This article brings religious conversion and religious giving under one analytic lens in examining how Ridwan', a Chinese-Indonesian convert to Islam from the Indonesian province of Aceh, describes the process through which he became a Muslim. Ridwan frames his account of conversion in terms of religious giving, with special reference to Acehnese ritual feasts known as kandoeri. He draws attention to the way kandoeri giving constitutes a mode of relationality, in which careful attention to difference is the basis for reciprocity. His approach rests on what the anthropological theorist of The Gift, Marcel Mauss, identified as moral persons', a category that contrasts with liberal ideas of the self and identity. It reflects an awareness of the dual nature of exchange partners, who are always potentially both enemy and friend. This subtly challenges prevailing Indonesian understandings of intercommunal, especially interreligious, relations as well as common perceptions of Chinese-Indonesian religiosity and belonging. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1695812 |