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Islamizing Intimacies - Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia (Hardcover)
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Islamizing Intimacies - Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia (Hardcover)
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One of the great transformations presently sweeping the Muslim
world involves not just political and economic change but the
reshaping of young Muslims' styles of romance, courtship, and
marriage. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner takes up the personal lives and
sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of
Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes
taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250
interviews over a fifteen-year period, her vivid, well-crafted
ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of
young Muslims and framed by a deep understanding of Indonesia's
wider debates on gender and youth culture. The changes among Muslim
youth reflect an ongoing if at times unsteady attempt to balance
varied ideals, ethical concerns, and aspirations. On the one hand,
growing numbers of young people show a deep and pervasive desire
for a more active role in their Islamic faith. On the other, even
as they seek a more self-conscious and scripture-based profession
of faith, many educated youth aspire to personal relationships
similar to those seen among youth elsewhere-a greater measure of
informality, openness, and intimacy than was typical for their
parents' and grandparents' generations. Young women in particular
seek freedom for self-expression, employment, and social
fulfillment outside of the home. Smith-Hefner pays particular
attention to their shifting roles and perspectives because it is
young women who have been most dramatically affected by the
upheavals transforming this Muslim-majority country. Although
deeply personal, the changing aspirations of young Muslims have
immense implications for social and public life throughout
Indonesia. The fruit of a longitudinal study begun shortly after
the fall of the authoritarian New Order government and the return
to democracy in 1998-1999, the book reflects Smith-Hefner's nearly
forty years of anthropological engagement with the island of Java
and her continuing exploration into what it means to be both
"modern" and Muslim. The culture of the new Muslim youth, the
author shows, through all its nuances and variations, reflects the
inexorable abandonment of traditions and practices deemed
incompatible with authentic Islam and an ongoing and profound
Islamization of intimacies.
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