J Millie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 57807 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Millie |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Millie |
| ASSINATURA | MILLIE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8809-9679 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Limits of bureaucratisation in Islamic education
Islamic bureaucracies in Indonesia and Turkey
Islamic bureaucracies
Talaqqi" in the age of bureaucracy; Symbiosis of pedagogical cultures in West Javanese "pesantren
Since Indonesian independence, the Republic’s Ministry of Religion has steadily become more deeply involved in the overseeing and monitoring of the country’s internally diverse system of Islamic education. This involvement has changed the pedagogical texture of Islamic education. The bureaucratized education system of the modern nation state aims to achieve policy goals such as quality at scale, equality of access, and standardization of curricul…
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media
This introduction considers two developments that have hitherto occupied separate realms of scholarship: the increasing visibility of pious consumption, and the proliferation in Indonesia of Muslim authorities and the associated fragmentation of Muslim publics. We identify three significant themes that connect these developments. First, the borders that separate religion and consumerism have become increasingly porous. Indonesian Muslims' uptake …
Graduate attributes, state policy, and Islamic preaching in Indonesia
The development of state institutions for the management and administration of Islam has enriched the range of Islamic authorities in Indonesia, with distinctive effects for public Islam. The article examines the effects of an Indonesian policy decision of 1975 that was intended to develop specific graduate attributes – ‘modernity, openness and critical thought’ – in graduates of Islamic post-graduate study. It was decreed that Islamic graduates …
The Discipline of Dakwah in Indonesia's State Education System
Dakwah (predication) is a popular field of research and study in the tertiary institutions under Indonesia's Ministry of Religion. To understand this popularity, it is necessary to recognize how individual Islamic sciences-such as dakwah-have been reconstituted within those institutions, for diverse disciplines have evolved along different trajectories. Dakwah has acquired its contemporary disciplinary character through dakwah academics' efforts …
Freedom from Consumption
Islamic particularity and academic freedom
The Indonesian Muslim community includes segments dedicated to contrasting pious projects and doctrinal positions, yet the nation's Ministry of Religion (MORA) manages aspects of Islamic life while purporting to more or less transcend such contrasts. This tension recently emerged in Indonesian public life when a state Islamic university defended the autonomy of its research practices against a challenge by scholars from outside the university who…
Ahmad Syafii Maarif. Translated by George A. Fowler. Islam, Humanity, and Indonesian Identity
the power and potency of the mountain and the soil in the face of tides of historical and ideological change.In one final provocation of my own, I question whether this emphasis upon the chthonic aspects of landscape is actually too grounded, offering too little recognition to the mobility and uncertainty of the cosmological world.As Andrew Johnson (2020) has argued in another recent study, ecological and infrastructural change brings new sources…
Sermons
Anthropological interest in the sermonic practices of speaking and audition has increased since anthropologists of religion reduced their focus on belief as the basis of religion and paid closer attention to practical and bodily forms of worship. This turn was more or less simultaneous with the global rise of Pentecostalism, which led researchers to recognize the effects of sermons beyond cognition, extending to the emotions, senses, and bodies o…
Men's politics, women's piety
The importance of embodied religious practice to public Islam in Indonesia is easily underrated. This article undertakes an empirical examination of two domains of public Islam in Indonesia: women's piety and formal Islamic party politics. Based on research with women's groups in West Java, the author argues that Islamic party politics rely upon fragmentation resulting from different understandings of embodied practices, while the consensus suppo…
An Anthropological Approach to the Islamic Turn in Indonesia's Regional Politics
Existing analyses of the Islamic turn in regional Islamic politics in Indonesia have overlooked the possibility that these politics - often critiqued for their negative implications for minorities and vulnerable segments - are to some extent reflections of indigenous cultural dispositions. Drawing on the author's long-time ethnographic work in West Java, as well as recent anthropological theorising about public ethics in Islamic societies, the ar…
The Public Metaculture of Islamic Preaching
The chapter concerns the public culture of Islam in Indonesia. Drawing on field experience in West Java, it observes that Islamic oratory invariably includes repetitive and solemn elements, especially the citation and translation of Qur’an and Hadith. Yet preachers also rely on their abilities to move listeners with skillful multivocality, drawing on many genres and ways of speaking within listeners’ competency, not just religious ones. When spea…
Conclusion
The book concludes by arguing that religious and political discourse is often characterized by the naturalization of monologue. In such discourse, monologism is treated as natural and dialogism becomes the project that requires the most effort—the emergent, fragile attempt that can never fully succeed. It offers examples from sources as diverse as John Wesley’s advice for preaching, Kim Jong-il’s lethal efforts to make all North Koreans speak in …
Hearing Allah’s Call
Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent fourteen months sitting among listeners at such events, and he provides detailed contextual description of the…
Regional Aspects of the IndonesianUlamaCouncil's Ideological Turn
When national governments support homogenising religious programs within plural populations, scholars are called to pay close attention to the subsequent interactions between state power and religious projects/actors. This article responds to this need by providing a sub-national perspective on Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars (MUI), a national body seen by some as a state-supported homogenising project. Based on fieldwork in the Indonesian…
Post-authoritarian diversity in Indonesia's state-owned mosques
Indonesia's state-owned mosques are important sites for observing changes in religious life that have taken place since the demise of the Suharto regime. During the New Order period, ideological and political factors restricted access to mosques owned and managed by provincial and regency governments. In contemporary West Java, access to such mosques has been broadened, and they now display a diversity of religious programs and practices. Drawing…
Arriving at the Point of Departing
The situated listener as problem
This article explores the ways in which evaluations of media forms, and specifically religious oratory, reveal a differentiated Muslim community. Indonesia’s Muslims attend oratorical events (preaching) in great numbers, and frequently do so within routines following the Islamic calendar and other schedules. But, despite their popularity, conventions of Islamic oratory are interpreted by the country’s Muslim progressives as inefficacious and anac…
Introduction
When preparing this special issue,1 our discussions with the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies (IJCS) included a moment of simultaneous surprise and reflection, which we would like to use as a starting point for our introduction to the articles appearing here. This occurred during communications about the number and length of the articles required for a special issue. The board’s representative stipulated that a spe…
The languages of preaching
Why do S undanese M uslims of W est J ava in certain situations prefer I slamic oratory in their regional language, S undanese, and in others prefer the national standard, I ndonesian? This article answers this question by firstly exploring different preaching outcomes that are recognised and generally accepted by S undanese M uslims. Some preaching events are oriented pre‐eminently to the communication of affect within the temporal frame of co‐p…
Ordinary Ethics
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java Julian Millie (bio) Recent writing about Islamic orators in Indonesia has highlighted an important if rather obvious aspect of their activity: social change creates audiences in new combinations with diverse needs for religious mediations by preachers with competencies that match the audiences' novel preferences and requirements. James Hoesterey, for example, has highlighted th…
Islamic preaching and women’s spectatorship in West Java
In the urban villages of Bandung, the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java, many Muslim women routinely attend between four and six oratorical and/or pedagogical events per week. This article analyses this participation by observing the forms and patterns of these women’s spectatorship, specifically observing their mobility, the interaction between their life‐cycles and their participation habits, the gendered embodiment of Islami…
Ordinary Ethics
Islamic preaching and women’s spectatorship in West Java
In the urban villages of Bandung, the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java, many Muslim women routinely attend between four and six oratorical and/or pedagogical events per week. This article analyses this participation by observing the forms and patterns of these women’s spectatorship, specifically observing their mobility, the interaction between their life‐cycles and their participation habits, the gendered embodiment of Islami…
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java Julian Millie (bio) Recent writing about Islamic orators in Indonesia has highlighted an important if rather obvious aspect of their activity: social change creates audiences in new combinations with diverse needs for religious mediations by preachers with competencies that match the audiences' novel preferences and requirements. James Hoesterey, for example, has highlighted th…
An Anthropological Approach to the Islamic Turn in Indonesia's Regional Politics
Existing analyses of the Islamic turn in regional Islamic politics in Indonesia have overlooked the possibility that these politics - often critiqued for their negative implications for minorities and vulnerable segments - are to some extent reflections of indigenous cultural dispositions. Drawing on the author's long-time ethnographic work in West Java, as well as recent anthropological theorising about public ethics in Islamic societies, the ar…
The Discipline of Dakwah in Indonesia's State Education System
Dakwah (predication) is a popular field of research and study in the tertiary institutions under Indonesia's Ministry of Religion. To understand this popularity, it is necessary to recognize how individual Islamic sciences-such as dakwah-have been reconstituted within those institutions, for diverse disciplines have evolved along different trajectories. Dakwah has acquired its contemporary disciplinary character through dakwah academics' efforts …
The situated listener as problem
This article explores the ways in which evaluations of media forms, and specifically religious oratory, reveal a differentiated Muslim community. Indonesia’s Muslims attend oratorical events (preaching) in great numbers, and frequently do so within routines following the Islamic calendar and other schedules. But, despite their popularity, conventions of Islamic oratory are interpreted by the country’s Muslim progressives as inefficacious and anac…
The languages of preaching
Why do S undanese M uslims of W est J ava in certain situations prefer I slamic oratory in their regional language, S undanese, and in others prefer the national standard, I ndonesian? This article answers this question by firstly exploring different preaching outcomes that are recognised and generally accepted by S undanese M uslims. Some preaching events are oriented pre‐eminently to the communication of affect within the temporal frame of co‐p…
Addendum to Drewes; The Burda of Al-Busiri and the miracles of Abdulqadir al-Jaelani in West Java
The Burda of Al-B√ß∆r∆ and the Miracles of Abdulqadir al-Jaelani in West JavaThis article provides information complementary to that found in two publications of the Dutch scholar
Talaqqi" in the age of bureaucracy; Symbiosis of pedagogical cultures in West Javanese "pesantren
Since Indonesian independence, the Republic’s Ministry of Religion has steadily become more deeply involved in the overseeing and monitoring of the country’s internally diverse system of Islamic education. This involvement has changed the pedagogical texture of Islamic education. The bureaucratized education system of the modern nation state aims to achieve policy goals such as quality at scale, equality of access, and standardization of curricul…
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media
This introduction considers two developments that have hitherto occupied separate realms of scholarship: the increasing visibility of pious consumption, and the proliferation in Indonesia of Muslim authorities and the associated fragmentation of Muslim publics. We identify three significant themes that connect these developments. First, the borders that separate religion and consumerism have become increasingly porous. Indonesian Muslims' uptake …
Post-authoritarian diversity in Indonesia's state-owned mosques
Indonesia's state-owned mosques are important sites for observing changes in religious life that have taken place since the demise of the Suharto regime. During the New Order period, ideological and political factors restricted access to mosques owned and managed by provincial and regency governments. In contemporary West Java, access to such mosques has been broadened, and they now display a diversity of religious programs and practices. Drawing…
Arriving at the Point of Departing
Supplicating, naming, offering
The tawassul is a ritual invocation popularly used in West Java at grave visits and in other Islamic observances. In simple terms, it consists of two acts; the naming of figures who are considered as mediators ( wasilah ) between a supplicant and Allah, and the making of an offering for the benefit of the mediator. Participants in tawassul hold contrasting understandings of what is achieved by performing it. Furthermore, the invocation is easily …
The poem of Bidasari in the Maranao language
In the course of preparing a manuscript for a book presenting the well known Malay poem entitled Syair Bidasari, I was surprised to come upon evidence that the work was enjoyed over a far wider region than was previ ously known to scholars of Malay studies. In the library of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde there resides a volume authored by Ester Vallado Daroy entitled Bidasari. This volume, coming to 91 pages, was publi…
Bidasari
The sly wit and silky eroticism of the verse genre known as romantic syair were staple dishes on the Southeast Asian cultural menu, especially in the Malay, Islamic regional centres. Yet very few examples are available in translation for the many readers interested in the genre, and attempts by academics to account for their powers of attraction are even rarer. This book is the author s effort to convey the seductive qualities of the sexiest of t…
Three books on the literary tradition of West Java
Review essay
Addendum to Drewes; The Burda of Al-Busiri and the miracles of Abdulqadir al-Jaelani in West Java
The Burda of Al-B√ß∆r∆ and the Miracles of Abdulqadir al-Jaelani in West JavaThis article provides information complementary to that found in two publications of the Dutch scholar
Supplicating, naming, offering
The tawassul is a ritual invocation popularly used in West Java at grave visits and in other Islamic observances. In simple terms, it consists of two acts; the naming of figures who are considered as mediators ( wasilah ) between a supplicant and Allah, and the making of an offering for the benefit of the mediator. Participants in tawassul hold contrasting understandings of what is achieved by performing it. Furthermore, the invocation is easily …
Khâriq Ul-'Âdah Anecdotes and the Representation of Karâmât
Splashed by the Saint
Sanctity is a concept recognized by Muslims throughout the Islamic world, and often motivates observances with highly localized characteristics. Julian Millie spent a year attending a supplication ritual in which Muslims of West Java directed their prayers to Allah through 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaelani (d. 1166). This man, whose tomb even today is a popular pilgrimage site in Baghdad, is widely considered the most powerful intercessor of all the saint…
Islamic preaching and women’s spectatorship in West Java
In the urban villages of Bandung, the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java, many Muslim women routinely attend between four and six oratorical and/or pedagogical events per week. This article analyses this participation by observing the forms and patterns of these women’s spectatorship, specifically observing their mobility, the interaction between their life‐cycles and their participation habits, the gendered embodiment of Islami…
The languages of preaching
Why do S undanese M uslims of W est J ava in certain situations prefer I slamic oratory in their regional language, S undanese, and in others prefer the national standard, I ndonesian? This article answers this question by firstly exploring different preaching outcomes that are recognised and generally accepted by S undanese M uslims. Some preaching events are oriented pre‐eminently to the communication of affect within the temporal frame of co‐p…
Ordinary Ethics
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java
Oratorical Innovation and Audience Heterogeneity in Islamic West Java Julian Millie (bio) Recent writing about Islamic orators in Indonesia has highlighted an important if rather obvious aspect of their activity: social change creates audiences in new combinations with diverse needs for religious mediations by preachers with competencies that match the audiences' novel preferences and requirements. James Hoesterey, for example, has highlighted th…
The situated listener as problem
This article explores the ways in which evaluations of media forms, and specifically religious oratory, reveal a differentiated Muslim community. Indonesia’s Muslims attend oratorical events (preaching) in great numbers, and frequently do so within routines following the Islamic calendar and other schedules. But, despite their popularity, conventions of Islamic oratory are interpreted by the country’s Muslim progressives as inefficacious and anac…
Introduction
When preparing this special issue,1 our discussions with the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies (IJCS) included a moment of simultaneous surprise and reflection, which we would like to use as a starting point for our introduction to the articles appearing here. This occurred during communications about the number and length of the articles required for a special issue. The board’s representative stipulated that a spe…
Post-authoritarian diversity in Indonesia's state-owned mosques
Indonesia's state-owned mosques are important sites for observing changes in religious life that have taken place since the demise of the Suharto regime. During the New Order period, ideological and political factors restricted access to mosques owned and managed by provincial and regency governments. In contemporary West Java, access to such mosques has been broadened, and they now display a diversity of religious programs and practices. Drawing…
Arriving at the Point of Departing
Regional Aspects of the IndonesianUlamaCouncil's Ideological Turn
When national governments support homogenising religious programs within plural populations, scholars are called to pay close attention to the subsequent interactions between state power and religious projects/actors. This article responds to this need by providing a sub-national perspective on Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars (MUI), a national body seen by some as a state-supported homogenising project. Based on fieldwork in the Indonesian…
The Public Metaculture of Islamic Preaching
The chapter concerns the public culture of Islam in Indonesia. Drawing on field experience in West Java, it observes that Islamic oratory invariably includes repetitive and solemn elements, especially the citation and translation of Qur’an and Hadith. Yet preachers also rely on their abilities to move listeners with skillful multivocality, drawing on many genres and ways of speaking within listeners’ competency, not just religious ones. When spea…
Conclusion
The book concludes by arguing that religious and political discourse is often characterized by the naturalization of monologue. In such discourse, monologism is treated as natural and dialogism becomes the project that requires the most effort—the emergent, fragile attempt that can never fully succeed. It offers examples from sources as diverse as John Wesley’s advice for preaching, Kim Jong-il’s lethal efforts to make all North Koreans speak in …
Hearing Allah’s Call
Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent fourteen months sitting among listeners at such events, and he provides detailed contextual description of the…
An Anthropological Approach to the Islamic Turn in Indonesia's Regional Politics
Existing analyses of the Islamic turn in regional Islamic politics in Indonesia have overlooked the possibility that these politics - often critiqued for their negative implications for minorities and vulnerable segments - are to some extent reflections of indigenous cultural dispositions. Drawing on the author's long-time ethnographic work in West Java, as well as recent anthropological theorising about public ethics in Islamic societies, the ar…
Ahmad Syafii Maarif. Translated by George A. Fowler. Islam, Humanity, and Indonesian Identity
the power and potency of the mountain and the soil in the face of tides of historical and ideological change.In one final provocation of my own, I question whether this emphasis upon the chthonic aspects of landscape is actually too grounded, offering too little recognition to the mobility and uncertainty of the cosmological world.As Andrew Johnson (2020) has argued in another recent study, ecological and infrastructural change brings new sources…
Sermons
Anthropological interest in the sermonic practices of speaking and audition has increased since anthropologists of religion reduced their focus on belief as the basis of religion and paid closer attention to practical and bodily forms of worship. This turn was more or less simultaneous with the global rise of Pentecostalism, which led researchers to recognize the effects of sermons beyond cognition, extending to the emotions, senses, and bodies o…
Men's politics, women's piety
The importance of embodied religious practice to public Islam in Indonesia is easily underrated. This article undertakes an empirical examination of two domains of public Islam in Indonesia: women's piety and formal Islamic party politics. Based on research with women's groups in West Java, the author argues that Islamic party politics rely upon fragmentation resulting from different understandings of embodied practices, while the consensus suppo…
Freedom from Consumption
Islamic particularity and academic freedom
The Indonesian Muslim community includes segments dedicated to contrasting pious projects and doctrinal positions, yet the nation's Ministry of Religion (MORA) manages aspects of Islamic life while purporting to more or less transcend such contrasts. This tension recently emerged in Indonesian public life when a state Islamic university defended the autonomy of its research practices against a challenge by scholars from outside the university who…
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