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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia

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Description for Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPR; JPWL; YQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence. Yet the complexities of political and religious struggles in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, remain little known and poorly understood in the West.

In Riots, Pogroms, Jihad, John T. Sidel situates these terrorist bombings and other "jihadist" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop ... Read more

Successive shifts in the incidence of violence-its forms, locations, targets, perpetrators, mobilizational processes, and outcomes-correspond, Sidel suggests, to related shifts in the very structures of religious authority and identity in Indonesia during this period. He interprets the most recent "jihadist" violence as a reflection of the post-1998 decline of Islam as a banner for unifying and mobilizing Muslims in Indonesian politics and society. Sidel concludes this book by reflecting on the broader implications of the pattern observed in Indonesia both for understanding Islamic terrorism in particular and for analyzing religious violence in all its varieties.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473272
SKU
V9780801473272
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About John T. Sidel
John T. Sidel is Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines and coauthor of Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century.

Reviews for Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia
"Beneath the many phenomena of violence that John T. Sidel has amply researched, he rightly discerns and repeatedly describes a key role for anxieties about religious identity."
Theodore Friend, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia "John T. Sidel has written an original, wise, and lasting book unlike the vast majority of breathless, ambulance-chasing, and shallow studies of ethnic and religious ... Read more

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