Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam

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Thomas B. Pepinsky (Associate Professor of Government, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University) R. William Liddle (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University)

Piety and Public Opinion

Understanding Indonesian Islam

Thomas B. Pepinsky (Associate Professor of Government, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University), R. William Liddle (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University), Saiful Mujani (Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, State Islamic University of Indonesia-Jakarta)

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Oxford University Press Inc
29 March 2018

Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Regional government policies; Political control & freedoms; Public opinion & polls

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to reevaluate their place in the global community of states, turning away from alignments with the West or the Global South and towards an Islamic civilizational identity?

The answers to all of these questions depend, at least in part, on what ordinary Muslims think and do. In order to provide these answers, the authors of this book look to Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country and one of the world's only consolidated Muslim democracies. They draw on original public opinion data to explore how religiosity and religious belief translate into political and economic behavior at the individual level. Across various issue areas--support for democracy or Islamic law, partisan politics, Islamic finance, views about foreign engagement--they find no evidence that the religious orientations of Indonesian Muslims have any systematic relationships with their political preferences or economic behavior. The broad conclusion is that scholars of Islam, in Indonesia and elsewhere, must understand religious life and individual piety as part of a larger and more complex set of social transformations. These transformations include modernization, economic development, and globalization, each of which has occurred in parallel with Islamic revivalism throughout the world. Against the common assumption that piety would naturally inhibit any tendencies towards modernity, democracy, or cosmopolitanism, Piety and Public Opinion reveals the complex and subtle links between religion and political beliefs in a critically important Muslim democracy.

By: Thomas B. Pepinsky (Associate Professor of Government Associate Professor of Government Cornell University), R. William Liddle (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University), Saiful Mujani (Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, State Islamic University of Indonesia-Jakarta)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 398g
ISBN: 9780190697808
ISBN 10: 0190697806
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 29 March 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 2: Conceptualizing and Measuring Piety Chapter 3: Islam and Party Politics Chapter 4: Islam and the Market Chapter 5: Islam and the World Conclusion Appendix: Constructing our Survey References Index

Thomas B. Pepinsky is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. R. William Liddle is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Ohio State University. Saiful Mujani is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Reviews for Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam

In this book, the authors have usefully provided a methodological blueprint for survey research that is based on a nuanced understanding of religion and politics. It is a method that rejects the view of Muslims as caricatures who act according to religion alone and instead takes them to be complex subjects shaped by a myriad of religious and non-religious factors. Given the enormous influence that quantitative data have on the policies made by Western democracies, including policies that pertain to the Muslim world, the importance of this book's contribution cannot be overstated. * Nur Amali Ibrahim, Reading Religion *