Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia an anthropology of public reasoning

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and law. John Bowen explores this struggle through arc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bowen, John R. 1951- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2003.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39719303*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Village Repertoires. Law, religion and pluralism ; Adat's local inequalities ; Remapping adat
  • pt. II. Reasoning legally through scripture. The contours of the courts ; The judicial history of 'consensus' ; The poisoned gift ; Historicizing scripture, justifying equality
  • pt. III. Governing Muslims through family. Whose word is law? ; Gender equality in the family? ; Justifying religious boundaries ; Public reasoning across cultural pluralism.