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Mobilizing Mainstream Islam: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

Mobilizing Mainstream Islam: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

Schäfer, Saskia

Paperback

Series: Religion and Conflict

IslamGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1501785257
ISBN13: 9781501785252
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Mobilizing Mainstream Islam explains the rise and changing shape of religious nationalism in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. In the 2000s, a time of electoral democratization, Indonesia's religious and political landscape experienced significant competition and reshuffling as religious and political elites formed an alliance to challenge Indonesia's official policies of tolerance and religious pluralism. As Saskia Schäfer argues, state and religious authorities have in the post-Suharto era constructed a homogenized, bureaucratized form of Islam--which she terms Mainstream Islam--that deliberately marginalizes people framed as minorities, such as Ahmadiyya, Shia Muslims and LGBTQI-identifying people, through securitization and theological delegitimization. She shows how the discourses of human rights have only sharpened the contours of these identities within the national imaginary.

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