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Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia

An Anthropology of Public Reasoning

Muslims currently struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws (including those derived from Islam, as well as contemporary ideas about gender equality and law) in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country. John Bowen explores their struggle through archival and ethnographic research and interviews with national religious and legal figures. His book relates to debates in any society where people struggle to live together with extreme differences in values and lifestyles and is welcomed by scholars and students in all branches of the social sciences.

It also reminds us that law, dispute resolution backed by state authority, is only
one element in a complex field of norms, feelings, livelihoods, and power.
Sometimes raw power asserts its claims outside the law, as when Acim, the army
man, ...