Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia

Tim Lindsey

ISBN 10: 1138100870 / ISBN 13: 9781138100879

Edité par Taylor & Francis Mai 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Despite its overwhelmingly Muslim majority, Indonesia has always been seen as exceptional for its diversity and pluralism. In recent years, however, there has been a rise in 'majoritarianism', with resurgent Islamist groups pushing hard to impose conservative values on public life. This book contains essays exploring these issues by prominent scholars, lawyers and activists from within Indonesia and beyond. Examining particular cases of intolerance and violence against minorities, it also provides an account of the responses offered by a weak state that seems often unwilling to intervene to protect vulnerable minorities against rising religious intolerance.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia
• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Mai 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1138100870
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781138100879
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 157 H x 28 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 28 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 794 grammes

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Synopsis

Despite its overwhelmingly Muslim majority, Indonesia has always been seen as exceptional for its diversity and pluralism. In recent years, however, there has been a rise in "majoritarianism", with resurgent Islamist groups pushing hard to impose conservative values on public life - in many cases with considerable success. This has sparked growing fears for the future of basic human rights, and, in particular, the rights of women and sexual and ethnic minority groups. There have, in fact, been more prosecutions of unorthodox religious groups since the fall of Soeharto in 1998 than there were under the three decades of his authoritarian rule. Some Indonesians even feel that the pluralism they thought was constitutionally guaranteed by the national ideology, the Pancasila, is now under threat. This book contains essays exploring these issues by prominent scholars, lawyers and activists from within Indonesia and beyond, offering detailed accounts of the political and legal implications of rising resurgent Islamism in Indonesia. Examining particular cases of intolerance and violence against minorities, it also provides an account of the responses offered by a weak state that now seems too often unwilling to intervene to protect vulnerable minorities against rising religious intolerance.

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Lindsey is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society in the Law School at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Helen Pausacker is Deputy Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society and a Principal Research Assistant in the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia.