Robert W Hefner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79118 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert W Hefner |
| PRENOMES | Robert W |
| SOBRENOME | Hefner |
| ASSINATURA | HEFNER R W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9438-699X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 150 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 689 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
An Anthropology of Religion and Modernity across Eastern Asia
This chapter focuses on religion and modernity in East and Southeast Asia. The region has been profoundly transformed by the forces of Western colonialism, new religious movements, and capitalisms with a distinctly Asian countenance. Over the past three decades, this region has also been reconstituted by the rise of new middle classes, with their trademark aspirations to higher education, refigured gender roles, and new ideals of human flourishin…
The Social Scientific Study of Islam in Indonesia
This essay provides an historical overview of broad currents in the social scientific study of Islam in Indonesia from the Modjokuto project of the early 1950s to today. It makes three broad points. First, the essay shows that a perennial influence on the refiguration of Muslim politics and ethics in Indonesia has been, not scriptural principles alone, but the global ascendance of the modern nation state and Muslim intellectuals’ and politicians’…
Minority, Cultural Citizenship, and Indonesian Islam
Minority citizenship is a very important dimension that gets attention in a pluralistic country like Indonesia. This is because minority citizens often receive discriminatory, intimidating, and violent treatment from members of the majority religious, ethnic and social groups. Cultural citizenship related to religion, ethnicity and social groups is thus a development study of purely political citizenship studies. Three main findings were obtained…
Revisiting the Long Divergence
Debunking the Myth of Islamic Parties
This article discusses the electoral contestation and eventual defeat of Islamic parties in Indonesia's past 2024 general election. Data for this article were collected using a mixed-methods approach. Field research was conducted by the authors between March and June 2022. In addition, the authors also collected data from articles written in various national and international journals, as well as official government offices. Collected data were s…
Conversion to Christianity
Of Faith and Commitment
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women’s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. The book shows that Muslim understandings of Islamic traditions and ethics have coevolved with the understanding and practice of democracy and citizen belonging. Following thirty-two years of authoritarian rule, in 1998 thi…
Muhammadiyah making Indonesia's Islamic moderation based on maqāṣid sharī`ah
Muhammadiyah, as an Islamic organization together with Nahdatul Ulama, are two Islamic organizations that oversee Islamic moderation in Indonesia. The role of Muhammadiyah in developing the idea of Islamic moderation has been manifested in educational institutions, social services, almsgiving, and health institutions such as Muhammadiyah hospitals. This research used qualitative methods based on manuscripts from journal articles, books, and inter…
Conservative Turn and Islamic Populism
This article objectives explore the main challenges of Indonesian democracy after the 2019 presidential election, namely the revival Islamic conservatism and populism, which seem to have seamlessly integrated into the Indonesian political praxis. This article to the authors attempt to the Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama response rise the conservatism and Islamic populism contextualizing the contemporary democratic politics in Indonesia. This art…
Interview
It's been well-documented that democracy has been in decline globally over the past 15 years or so.Recently there's evidence from Freedom House that this decline is accelerating.A critical example is the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February, an attack which has fuelled speculation about whether China might be emboldened to attack Taiwan.How is democracy faring in Asia, particularly Indonesia, the world's third largest democracy?What's the st…
What Is Religious Authority
Over the past fifteen years, the historical and anthropological study of Islam has undergone a far-reaching theoretical reorientation. The shift has been driven by revisionist inquiries into the historical and epistemological reality of Islam, and into the related question of just what to prioritize in the study of Islam as a locally embedded yet universal reality. Shahab Ahmed’s, What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton, 2016) …
Portrait
In an article as relevant now as when it was written, Aleida Assmann (1996: 94) asks: "How in a world of divided creeds is one to find out which is the true belief?" She draws from Gotthold Lessing's character Nathan the Wise to say (ibid.: 95): There are two possible solutions to the problem, that of the fundamentalist and that of the sage. The fundamentalist overcomes the problem of multiplicity by a return to the One. Truth can be restored onl…
Hindu Javanese
Indonesian Pluralities
Religion as raft in a stormy sea
Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom in Indonesia
By emphasizing that individual religious freedom depends for its realization on complex social embeddings, the concept of institutional religious freedom provides an important corrective to conventional, individualistic approaches to religious freedom. The concept also helpfully complicates the investigation of religious freedom by encouraging analysts to recognize that different societal and civilizational traditions define religion itself in si…
Islam and Covenantal Pluralism in Indonesia
The ideal of covenantal pluralism is at once timely and challenging. It is timely because, after decades of policy briefs suggesting that free elections and civil society are sufficient to secure democracy, the struggle for pluralist co-existence around the globe remains as unfinished today as ever. The concept is challenging because it leaves unclear how its ideals are to achieve real-world realization—particularly where a portion of the populat…
Indonesia and the Muslim World
Laskar Jihad
Contentious Belonging
Challenging the Secular State
Violence in Between
The New Governance of Religious Diversity
Religious Freedom in Islam
For the past 30 years, the question of the compatibility of human rights and liberal democratic regimes with the civilizational heritage of Muslim-majority societies has figured prominently in West
Multiple Modernities
The late twentieth century has seen far-reaching changes in the translocal cultural regimes known as world religions. This review examines the politics and meanings of recent changes in three such religions: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. It highlights the nature of the forces reshaping religious meanings and authority, the processes promoting conversion and standardization, and the implications of these religious refigurations for our unders…
Remaking Muslim Politics
There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading speciali…
Islam, State, and Civil Society
On December 6,1990, television viewers across Indonesia were treated to the image of President Muhammad Suharto,1 clad in distinctive mosque attire, striking a large mosque drum (bedug) to call to order the first-ever meeting of the Association of Indonesian Muslim intellectuals (ICMI, Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Se-Indonesia).It was a poignant moment in the political and cultural history of New Order (post-1966) Indonesia.For many Muslim Indonesia…
Islamizing Java? Religion and Politics in Rural East Java
Scholarly discussion of Javanese society has consistently linked variation in Islamic orthodoxy to differences of socioeconomic class, political behavior, and social conflict. In the most widely known sociological formula, Clifford Geertz distinguished three varieties of Javanese Islam and correlated each with a particular social class.Abangan, or Javanist Muslim, tradition was described as a syncretic blend of animist, Hindu-Buddhist, and Islami…
Hindu Javanese
The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming
Civil Islam
Religious Resurgence in Contemporary Asia
Large portions of East and Southeast Asia are in the throes of a historically unprecedented upsurge in religious observance and association. Many of the new varieties of religiosity are more popular, voluntary, and laity based than the religions of yesteryear. Many are also marked by the heightened participation of women, and an emphasis on inner-worldly well-being as well as otherworldly transcendence. Focusing on Southeast Asia, but with refere…
Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization
Journal Article Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization Get access Robert W. Hefner Robert W. Hefner * Institute for Study of Economic Culture, Boston University * Direct correspondence to Robert W. Hefner, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University, 10 Lenox Street, Brookline, MA 02446. e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Iss…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics
Civil Islam
Muslims Through Discourse
Whatever Happened to Civil Islam? Islam and Democratisation in Indonesia, 20 Years On
As the hopeful dreams of the 2011 “Arab spring” have given way to anti-democratic repression in most Arab-majority nations, the question of Islam and democracy in Indonesia has been thrust to the centre of policy and research attention once more. With some 260 million people, 87 per cent of whom are Muslim, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority society in the world and the third-largest democracy. Analysts disagree as to whether Indonesi…
Global Violence and Indonesian Muslim Politics
The attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States and the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan provoked fierce threats of violence in Indonesia, the world's largest majority-Muslim country. Western journalists portrayed these reactions as among the most destabilizing in the Muslim world. Less widely reported, however, was the intensification of a struggle between Muslim proponents of democracy and neof undamentalist conservatives, sparked by th…
A Model of Sex‐Role Transcendence
We propose a three‐stage model of sex‐role development which accounts for the failure of traditional models to explain sex‐role socialization and eliminate discrimination. Our model asserts that sex‐role development proceeds through three stages: an undifferentiated conception of sex roles, a polarized oppositional view of sex roles, and a transcendence of sex roles. The second stage characterizes many individuals and societal institutions today,…
Print Islam
On December 30, 1996, a few dozen protesters gathered to demonstrate outside the offices of Indonesia's leading Islamic newspaper, Republika, in the southern suburbs of the capital city of Jakarta.1 The protesters were from a coalition of some eighteen Muslim organizations, all with spiritual ties to the Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (Indonesian Counsel for Islamic Predication, or DDII), one of Indonesia's leading organizations for reformist I…
Islam and Covenantal Pluralism in Indonesia
The ideal of covenantal pluralism is at once timely and challenging. It is timely because, after decades of policy briefs suggesting that free elections and civil society are sufficient to secure democracy, the struggle for pluralist co-existence around the globe remains as unfinished today as ever. The concept is challenging because it leaves unclear how its ideals are to achieve real-world realization—particularly where a portion of the populat…
The Politics of Popular Art
In terms of our often chimerical image of priyayi culture, tayuhan dance can at first sight appear bewilderingly un-Javanese. Contrary to most Indonesian dance styles, tayuhan involves men dancing directly with women,l in a fashion which on occasion may be flirtatious or even intimate. The female dancers are paid professionals known as tledhek or tandhak.2 When it is a man's turn to receive the dance scarf, these women come to sit at his side, si…
Religion
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation represents a lifetime's work on the anthropology of religion from a rather unusual personal viewpoint. Raymond Firth treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements, but also of complex manipulation to serve the human interests of those who believe in it and operate it. His study is comparative, drawing material from a range of religions around the world. Its findings are…
Religions in Practice
Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion. John R. Bowen. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn &Bacon, 1998. 272pp
Hindu Javanese
Ritual and cultural reproduction in non-Islamic Java
Recent studies link the problem of cultural transmission to the larger issue of how we conceptualize cultural history and integration. I address this question here by examining reproduction and change in lava's only surviving Indic priesthood. The conflict of meanings characteristic of priestly and popular ritual culture in modern Tengger has a history shaped by the differing modes of cultural transmission around which this non-Islamic tradition …
Perceptual Maps of the World
Journal Article PERCEPTUAL MAPS OF THE WORLD Get access JOHN P. ROBINSON, JOHN P. ROBINSON *John P. Robinson is a Study Director at the Survey Research Center, and Robert Hefner is Research Director at the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, both at the University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT HEFNER ROBERT HEFNER *John P. Robinson is a Study Director at the Survey Research Cen…
The Study of Religious Freedom in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the word, issues of religion-state relations have long loomed large, in part because of zig-zag shifts in this country's politics and associated challenges for religious tolerance, social freedoms, and citizenship. Although it is only in the past decade that research on Indonesia has been explicitly reframed in relation to religious freedom, issues directly relevant to the topic have long figur…
Symposium on 11 September 2001 Terrorism, Islam and the West
Multidimensional differences in public and academic perceptions of nations
National Development from a Social Psychological Perspective
Perceptual Maps of the World
Journal Article PERCEPTUAL MAPS OF THE WORLD Get access JOHN P. ROBINSON, JOHN P. ROBINSON *John P. Robinson is a Study Director at the Survey Research Center, and Robert Hefner is Research Director at the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, both at the University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT HEFNER ROBERT HEFNER *John P. Robinson is a Study Director at the Survey Research Cen…
Statement by SPSSI on current IQ controversy
Racial factors in intelligence—A rebuttal
Modernity and the Challenge of Pluralism
In the tradition of Western social sciences to grow a sense of " hard " about the secularization : the removal of religion from public life ; religion is only a private matter of each person ; he did not have a significant social role .The idea of secularization or the desecration of the Muslim reformer Indonesia has made Islam is not synonymous with social groups - political . Islam has been freed from political conflicts to be accepted by the w…
The "Tel Quel" Ideology
We have before us a critique an attempt at reduplication, of repetion . . . of an ideological movement determined by another context, that of the years 1920-1930. The critique is that of the Tel Quel group; their target is neo-surrealism, heir to the surrealist movement of forty years ago. The task which we here propose to perform is to examine the political and ideological position of the Tel Quel group, using as our primary source the texts of …
Leiris and Anthropology
A Model of Sex‐Role Transcendence
We propose a three‐stage model of sex‐role development which accounts for the failure of traditional models to explain sex‐role socialization and eliminate discrimination. Our model asserts that sex‐role development proceeds through three stages: an undifferentiated conception of sex roles, a polarized oppositional view of sex roles, and a transcendence of sex roles. The second stage characterizes many individuals and societal institutions today,…
Baudrillard's Noble Anthropology
Marx's of political has itself suffered a number of critiques in this century. Since the late 1960's have seen a number of such critiques in France, no doubt in partial reaction to the rise of a revitalized marxism prior to 1968 and its subsequent decline in many intellectual circles. As a subject of analysis, discussions of political economy almost inevitably touch upon questions of an anthropological nature, this at times in their concern for a…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
The Problem of Preference
Ritual and cultural reproduction in non-Islamic Java
Recent studies link the problem of cultural transmission to the larger issue of how we conceptualize cultural history and integration. I address this question here by examining reproduction and change in lava's only surviving Indic priesthood. The conflict of meanings characteristic of priestly and popular ritual culture in modern Tengger has a history shaped by the differing modes of cultural transmission around which this non-Islamic tradition …
The Culture Problem in Human Ecology
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Hindu Javanese
An illuminating account of cultural resilience in Java Five centuries after the fall of its last Hindu Buddhist kingdom, Java retains only one small population that preserves a non-Islamic priestly tradition descended from early Hindu clergy. Known as the Tengger, these mountain Javanese lack the courts, castes, and religious scholars that transmit Hindu tradition in nearby Bali, the only other area in Indonesia to have kept a Hindu faith. What e…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Film on Indonesia. Toby Alice Volkman
The Politics of Popular Art
In terms of our often chimerical image of priyayi culture, tayuhan dance can at first sight appear bewilderingly un-Javanese. Contrary to most Indonesian dance styles, tayuhan involves men dancing directly with women,l in a fashion which on occasion may be flirtatious or even intimate. The female dancers are paid professionals known as tledhek or tandhak.2 When it is a man's turn to receive the dance scarf, these women come to sit at his side, si…
Islamizing Java? Religion and Politics in Rural East Java
Scholarly discussion of Javanese society has consistently linked variation in Islamic orthodoxy to differences of socioeconomic class, political behavior, and social conflict. In the most widely known sociological formula, Clifford Geertz distinguished three varieties of Javanese Islam and correlated each with a particular social class.Abangan, or Javanist Muslim, tradition was described as a syncretic blend of animist, Hindu-Buddhist, and Islami…
Politics and Social Indentity
In the first years of the postcolonial era, students of politics in the new nation- states often assumed that "primordial" ties of kinship, language, ethnicity, and religion would gradually give way to a more encompassing sense of national political community. The emergence of such an expanded civic sense, it was hoped, would be paralleled by the development of economic, educational, and even religious institutions similarly premised on a broader…
Hindu Javanese
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Hindu Javanese
The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The Political Economy of Mountain JavaAn Interpretive History
A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world, presenting an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. It describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre-colonial times to the Green Revolution today
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