Piety and Public Opinion

Understanding Indonesian Islam

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ID19976097
AuthorsThomas B Pepinsky (0000-0002-4000-217X), R William Liddle, Saiful Mujani (0000-0001-9582-0543)
Year2018
Pages208
Publication date2018-01-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePiety and Public Opinion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190697808.001.0001
OpenAlexW2790107686
Open LibraryOL30585409M
ISBN9780190697808
LanguageEN
Citations received29

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers struggle to understand the consequences of this Islamic resurgence. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to turn away from alignments with the West and toward an Islamic civilizational identity? Piety and Public Opinion presents a fresh new perspective on these issues, based on the simple fact that the answers to these questions depend on what ordinary Muslims think and do. In contrast to most research on Islam and politics which focuses narrowly on the Middle East or the Arab world, it argues that Indonesia—the world’s largest Muslim majority country, with a thriving democratic government, an emerging middle-income economy, and flourishing Islamist movement—is an ideal context to study how politics, markets, globalization, and Islamic revivalism interact. Leveraging original data and cutting-edge methods, the authors find no evidence that pious Muslims are more or less democratic, more or less market-oriented, or more or less cosmopolitan than their less pious peers. Against the common assumption that piety would naturally inhibit any tendencies toward modernity, democracy, or cosmopolitanism, Piety and Public Opinion reveals the complex and subtle links between religion and political beliefs in an important Muslim democracy

Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Flourishing · Geography · Islam · Muslim world · Piety · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Public opinion · Public sphere · Sociology · Theology · World Values Survey · Asian Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools

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