Popular Piety and the Muslim Middle Class Bourgeoisie in Indonesia

Culture, Lifestyle and the Information Revolution in the Middle East and Muslim World

For over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the MiddleEast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. The re...

The Muslim Disparity in Education Attainment: Explanations from Indonesia

This paper documents the gap in secondary education progression between Muslims and nonMuslims using a panel dataset from Indonesia. The finding is that Muslim males face a lower chance of enroling in senior secondary level. For those who graduated from senior secondary, the probability of a Muslim male to enrol in college is around 53 percent lower than a nonMuslim male. It appears that equali...

Clerical Dissent, Popular Piety, and Sanctity in Fourteenth-Century Peterborough: The Cult of Laurence of Oxford

Syariah as Heterotopia: Responses from Muslim Women in Aceh, Indonesia

In this paper, I argue that the implementation of syariah is best understood as a heterotopia by women in Aceh, Indonesia. The current debates over the role of syariah for women in Acehnese society focus on either a secular human rights critique of non-liberal norms that restrict the rights and freedom of women or a religiously prescribed defense of communal norms that protect women and society...

Women’s Agency in the Face of Symbolic Violence in the Middle Class

Extended abstract Introduction: The family has two faces. A family may be like the paradise that encompasses the feelings of love and security, and family members love each other, care for each other, and get along with each other. However, a family can also have a dark side and it can be regarded as an environment prone to violence in the society. Violence in the family occurs both against wo...