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  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia

    Edited by Robert Hefner ...
    Few countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are as often misrepresented in global media and conversation. Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This sprawling Southeast Asian nation is also ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Democratic Civility

    The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal

    by Robert Hefner ...
    In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals. Shortly thereafter, however, a surge of ethnic and religious violence raised doubts about whether democracy could survive outside Western culture. Similar concerns were soon raised even in Western nations by widespread citizen disengagement from the political ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Market Cultures

    Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

    by Robert Hefner ...
    Market Cultures examines the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. It does so, not through formal models, but by way of the varied cultures and organizations in which Asian capitalism is embedded. Eschewing talk of a uniform Asian miracle, the book shows that there existed complex precedents for ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia

    Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics

    by Robert W. Hefner ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Civil Islam

    Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

    by Robert W. Hefner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond.Democratic in the early 1950s and with rich precedents for tolerance and civility, Indonesia ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 6, Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800

    Edited by Robert W. Hefner ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of Islam
    Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, the sixth and final volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. Robert Hefner's thought-provoking account of the political and intellectual transformation of the Muslim world introduces the volume, which proceeds with twenty-five essays by luminaries in their ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Hindu Javanese

    Tengger Tradition and Islam

    by Robert W. Hefner ...
    An illuminating account of cultural resilience in JavaFive 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Religions in Movement

    The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions

    Edited by John Hutchinson, Sara Mels, Christiane Timmerman, Robert Hefner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘Globalization’ has been viewed as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated religion ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Remaking Muslim Politics

    Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization

    Edited by Robert W. Hefner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in 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 ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Schooling Islam

    The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education

    Edited by Robert W. Hefner, Muhammad Qasim Zaman ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. Media reports tend to paint madrasas--religious schools dedicated to Islamic learning--as medieval institutions opposed to all that is Western and as breeding grounds for terrorists. Others have claimed that without reforms, Islam and the West are doomed to a clash of ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Indonesian Pluralities

    Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy

    Edited by Robert W. Hefner, Zainal Abidin Bagir ...
    Series series Contending Modernities
    The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefully within a diverse society to the forefront of global discussion. Against this backdrop, Indonesia has taken on a particular importance: with a population of 265 million people (87.7 percent of whom are Muslim), Indonesia is both the largest Muslim ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Responding to The Grand Challenges In Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation

    Needed Advances in Management Research

    Edited by Stephen M. Shortell, Lawton Robert Burns, Jennifer L. Hefner ...
    Series Book 21 - Advances in Health Care Management
    This book contains two Open Access chapters.The 21st volume of Advances in Health Care Management presents informed commentaries solicited from leaders across the field of health care management. Each chapter tackles a specific health care challenge, describing the state of the research on the challenge, identifying appropriate organizational innovations to respond to the challenge, and setting ... Read more

    $78.99 USD