Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Sociality in Java, Indonesia – En-Chieh Chao
Author: En-Chieh Chao
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Print Length: 223 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Ethnic Studies, Non-Fiction / Social Science, Pluralism
Topic: Community, Ethnic & Ethnicity, Gender, Social Norms
This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon entangled with gendered sociality and religious others, rather than a preordained outcome stemming from a self-contained religious tradition.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Pieties in Contact
2 Generating Religiosities
3 Engineering Horizons
4 Regendering Community
5 Regendering Ethnicity
6 Performing Pluralism
7 Conclusions: Entangled Pieties
Glossary
References
Index
En-Chieh Chao is a cultural anthropologist, currently Associate Professor of Sociology Department at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the intersections between religion, gender, race, and STS (social studies of science/technology). Her book Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Socialities in Java, Indonesia was released from Palgrave Macmillan in August 2017. More recently, Chao undertakes a project to study Islam with science, technology and society in the Indo-Malay world. She explores the overlooked multi-species science of halal－the dynamics of Islamic ritual purity in modern life involving animal physiology, molecular biology, and chemistry－to expose the social contingencies that gave birth to certain scientific practices and religious understandings in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Her peer-reviewed articles (written either in English or Chinese) investigate issues including: the cultural history of inter-religious lives in Java; Islamophobia and cyber-racism in the US; young female hijab designers’ social influence in Indonesia ; and the relationship between global Islamic jurisprudence, animal welfare, the modern meat industry , as well as laboratory science.
Source: https://www.bu.edu/anthrop/2020/08/31/en-chieh-chao-grs-13/
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