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.
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.
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List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Terminology
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary
1 Between Tradition and Change, Moderation and Extremism
TIM LINDSEY, HELEN PAUSACKER AND JAMHARI MAKRUF
PART I
Islamic Schools and Pre-Schools: Moderation and Extremism
2 Religious Discipline in Preschool Education Institutions in Indonesia
LIES MARCOES
3 Pesantren and Madrasah in Indonesia: Then and Now
ROBERT KINGHAM
4 Islamic Education as Acculturation: Lomboks Pesantren Darul Falah
JEREMY J. KINGSLEY
5 Women, Education and the Pious Feminine in Nahdlatul Wathan, East Lombok
BIANCA J. SMITH
6 Women and Change in a Radical Pesantren
FARHA ABDUL KADIR (CICIEK) ASSEGAF
7 Indonesian Foreign Fighters, Masculinity and Islamic Boarding Schools
NOOR HUDA ISMAIL
8 Living Dangerously: The Impact of COVID-19 on Pesantren
LAIFA A. HENDARMIN AND JAMHARI MAKRUF
PART II
Islamic Higher Education: Rethinking Tradition
9 Comparative Religion, Tolerance and Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia
ISMATU ROPI
10 Islamic Studies in Indonesia, from IAIN to UIN: Strengthening the
Wasatiyyah Islam
AZYUMARDI AZRA
11 State Islamic Universities and Legal Curriculum Reform
SIMON BUTT
12 State Islamic Universities and Education Curriculum Reform
MARY GALLAGHER
13 Educating Religious Court Judges in Indonesia: Islam, Justice and Gender
WINDY TRIANA
14 Private Islamic Universities in Indonesia: Keeping Piety Relevant to
Modern Education
ALFITRI AND MUZAYYIN AHYAR
15 Disability Rights and Inclusive Education in Islamic Tertiary Education
DINA AFRIANTY
16 When Back to the Quran and Hadith Is No Longer Enough: Radicalisation
of Islamic Teaching in Indonesia
NADIRSYAH HOSEN
Index
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.
