Religion and Regulation in Indonesia

✍ Scribed by Ismatu Ropi (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia. Examining state regulation of religious affairs, it focuses on understanding its origin, history and consequences on citizens’ religious life in modern Indonesia, arguing that while Indonesian constitutions have preserved religious freedom, they have also tended to construct wide-ranging discretionary powers in the government to control religious life and oversee religious freedom. Over more than four decades, Indonesian governments have constructed a variety of policies on religion based on constitutional legacies interpreted in the light of the norms and values of the existing religious majority group. A cutting edge examination of the tension between religious order and harmony on one hand, and protecting religious freedom for all on the other, this book offers a cutting edge study of how the history of regulating religion has been about the constant negotiation for the boundaries of authority between the state and the religious majority group.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
The State and Religion: An Overview....Pages 15-28
Theorizing Regulation of Religion....Pages 29-42
Religion and Religious Life in Indonesia: Legacies from the Past....Pages 43-56
Negotiating Boundaries of Religion Roles in the State System....Pages 57-77
Religion and the Intrusive Constitutions....Pages 79-87
Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa: Contests of Meaning and Interpretation....Pages 89-99
The Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Muslim Community and the Administration of Religious Life....Pages 101-116
Regulating Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa in Public Life....Pages 117-126
Suharto New Order’s Regime, Development Programme and Religion....Pages 127-137
Governmentalization of Religious Policies....Pages 139-160
Managing Religious Tension....Pages 161-181
Islamic Populism over Minority Rights....Pages 183-197
Old Issues New Controversies: Cases of the Places of Worship, the Ahmadiyah Group and the Judicial Review of the Vilification Law....Pages 199-218
Conclusion....Pages 219-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-263

✦ Subjects

Religion and Society;Public Policy;Sociology of Religion