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What Is Religious Authority Cultivating
What Is Religious Authority Cultivating
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of community building on the island of Java
This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie “An extraordinary accomplishment.
Alatas’s unique insights as an anthropologist Alatas possesses a singular vision, in
to provide a new understanding of Islamic formed by the historian’s deep sense
religious authority, showing how religious of the past and the ethnographer’s
leaders unite diverse aspects of life and con nuanced insight into the present. He
test differing Muslim perspectives to create has accomplished a rare feat, doing
distinctly Muslim communities. justice to both the universal claims of