1st Edition
Islam, Education and Radicalism in Indonesia Instructing Piety
This book explores the connections between traditional Islamic education, rising religious intolerance, religious attitudes to gender, campaigns for curricula innovation and modernisation, and politics and society in Indonesia. Drawing on extensive original research and the deep experience of the authors, the book highlights tensions between traditional Islamic educators and modernisers, and between different understandings of Islam, emphasising the importance of these issues for the future of Indonesia.
- Between tradition and change, moderation and extremism
- Religious discipline in preschool education institutions in Indonesia
- Pesantren and madrasah in Indonesia: Then and now
- Islamic education as acculturation: Lombok’s Pesantren Darul Falah
- Women, education and the pious feminine in Nahdlatul Wathan, East Lombok
- Women and change in a radical pesantren
- Indonesian foreign fighters, masculinity and Islamic boarding schools
- Living dangerously: The impact of Covid-19 on pesantren
- Comparative religion, tolerance and Islamic higher education in Indonesia
- Islamic studies in Indonesia, from IAIN to UIN: Strengthening the Wasatiyyah Islam
- State Islamic Universities and legal curriculum reform
- State Islamic Universities and education curriculum reform
- Educating Religious Court judges in Indonesia: Islam, justice and gender
- Private Islamic universities in Indonesia
- Disability rights and inclusive education in Islamic tertiary education
- When ‘back to the Qur’an and hadith’ is no longer enough: Radicalisation of Islamic teaching in Indonesia
Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker and Jamhari Makruf
Part I: Islamic SCHOOLS and pre-schools: mODERATION AND EXTREMISM
Lies Marcoes
Robert Kingham
Jeremy J. Kingsley
Bianca J. Smith
Farha Abdul Kadir (Ciciek) Assegaf
Noor Huda Ismail
Laifa A. Hendarmin and Jamhari Makruf
Part II: islamic Higher Education: RETHINKING TRADITION
Ismatu Ropi
Azyumardi Azra
Simon Butt
Mary Gallagher
Windy Triana
Alfitri and Muzayyin Ahyar
Dina Afrianty
Nadirsyah Hosen
Biography
Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Jamhari Makruf is a Professor and Vice Rector of the Indonesian International Islamic University.
Helen Pausacker is Deputy Director of and a Principal Research Assistant in the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia.