"This book discusses and analyses the construction, contestation, pluralization, fragmentation, and segmentation of religious authority in Indonesian Islam. How this authority was traditionally constructed and now re-constructed? Which religious groups currently have strong infl…
Just like the Gutenberg revolution in the fifteenth century, which led to the emergence of non-conventional religious authority in the Christian world, the current information technology revolution, particularly through mediums such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, …
The New Santri: Challenges to Traditional Religious Authority in …
by Firdaus, Wajdi, Ahmad Najib, Burhani, Eunsook, Jung, Hamdani, Ahmad Nuril, Huda, Arskal, Salim, Azhar, Ibrahim, Euis, Nurlaelawati, Hikmawan, Saefullah, M. Amin, Abdullah, M. Najib, Azca, Marzi, Afriko, Moh Zaki, Arrobi, Muhammad Adlin, Sila, Noorhaidi, Hasan, Norshahril Saat, Syafiq, Hasyim, Syamsul, Rijal, Wahyudi, Akmaliah, Yanwar, Pribadi
Just like the Gutenberg revolution in the fifteenth century, which led to the emergence of non-conventional religious authority in the Christian world, the current information technology revolution, particularly through mediums such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, …
Focusing on the pivotal role of preacher as "culture broker," Antoun compares the process of "the social organization of tradition" in rural Jordan with similar processes outside the Muslim world. He then highlights the experiential dimension of Islam. The sermons discussed rang…
Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies the single most important institution for the propagation of Islam, the Friday congregational sermon delivered in the mosque by the Muslim preacher. In his analysis of various sermons collected in a Jordanian village and in Amman, the aut…
"Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, ser…