Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia: Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture

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What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today? In contemporary discourse Islam and modernity are often presented as each other’s opposites in media and popular culture. Southeast Asia has a large Muslim population, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, but Islamic culture in these states is conspicuously absent from the wider global discourse on Islam. With a focus on popular culture in Indonesia – a country that houses the world’s largest Muslim population and that is also undergoing modernisation –Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia will demonstrate how Islamic modernities are being negotiated and constructed through popular and visual culture from a trans-regional perspective. Looking at a variety of Islamic-themed popular and visual culture including rock music, cinema, art, visual decorations in shopping malls, self-help books, and fashion blogs, the book explores how Islamic modernities are imagined, negotiated, contested, and shared in Southeast Asia. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Chapter One Introduction: Islamic-themed Popular and Visual Culture and Images of Modernities Islamic-themed Popular and Visual Culture in Southeast Asia Islam and Popular Culture during the New Order Post–New Order Transformations and the Rise of the Middle Class in Southeast Asia Islam in Islamic Popular and Visual Culture Southeast Asian Islamic-themed Popular and Visual Culture as a Field of Study Islamic Modernities Encounters with Modernities Ethnographic Observations Shopping Malls, Rock Stars, and Self-help Gurus Notes Chapter Two Urban Islamic Spectacles: Transforming the Space of the Shopping Mall during Ramadan The Politics of Spatial Ordering The Mall as a Heterotopia Ramadan as an Islamic Heterotopic Moment Towards an Integral Study of Space and Time Chapter Three Islamic Rock Music and Imaginations of Modernities Imagining Islamic Modernities, an Imagination across Space and Time Tuhan: Islam in a Modern World Perdamaian: Imagining, Negotiating, and Contesting Islamic Modernities Nationalism: Building a Modern Future Aspiring and Actualizing an Islamic Modern Future Chapter Four Islamic Self-help Books and Governmentality Islamic Self-help Books Governmentality, Self-help, and Religion Wonderful Family: The Keluarga Sakinah as the Foundation of Islamic Modernities Rasullulah’s Business School: Transforming Muhammad into a Modern Entrepreneur Twitografi Asma Nadia: Governing Muslim Girls The Modern Muslim as a Self-enterprising Citizen-Subject Note Chapter Five Muslim Masculinity and Femininity in Islamic-themed Films Islamic-themed Films and Biopolitical Governance Berbagi Suami: Polygamy and the Struggle of the Modern Woman Virgin: Controlling Wild Girls Ayat-Ayat Cinta: Violence, Polygamy, and Ideal Muslim Masculinity The National Function of post–New Order Femininities and Masculinities Chapter Six Liking, Wearing, and Sharing Islamic Modernities: Indonesian and Malaysian Muslim Fashion Bloggers Narrating the Fashionable Self Constructing Modern Fashionable Selves Cosmopolitanism and Class Motivational Religion: Staying Fashionable, Modest, and Pious Mobile, Cosmopolitan, Fashionable, Consumerist, and Pious Selves Notes Chapter Seven Unearthing the Past and Reimagining the Present: Contemporary Art and Muslim Politics in a Post-9/11 World Membuat Obama and the Politics of Juxtaposition 11 June 2002 and the Politics of Memory Muslim Politics and Aesthetics: Practicing a Critical History Chapter Eight Conclusion: Islamic Modernities and the Politics of Plurality Modernities and the Means of Mediation Advancing Scholarship: Flows, Spaces, and Audiences Flows Spaces Audiences Bibliography Index