Chaplin, Chris (2014) Imagining the land of the two holy mosques: The social and doctrinal importance of Saudi Arabia in Indonesian Salafi Discourse. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 7 (2). pp. 217-236. ISSN 1999-2521
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Abstract
The emergence of Salafi Islam within Indonesia has shifted the imaginary boundaries of Islamic identity. Although relatively small in numbers, Salafis propagate a religious discourse linked to scholars in Saudi Arabia. While it cannot be regarded as merely a type of ‘Saudization’, the kingdom is frequently exemplified as a model for a pious society as well as pragmatic solutions on how to deal with contemporary issues ranging from justice to terrorism. Indeed, Saudi Arabia plays a pivotal part in the Salafi imaginary, balancing a historical Islamic past with a modernist religious present and future. Based on fieldwork conducted from 2011 to 2012 in Yogyakarta, this paper builds upon this premise, offering both a description and an analysis of the importance of the kingdom as a source of educational sponsorship but also, more interestingly, as a source of religious authority and social ideals, articulated within contemporary religious literature and the movement’s study sessions (kajian). More pointedly, I argue that actors use Saudi Arabia to construct an imaginary ideal through which social and religious issues are contemplated and compared to apparent Indonesian ‘social corruption’
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.seas.at/our-journal-aseas/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2017 14:07 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2024 17:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84483 |
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