2008
Thomas P. Gibson
- Professor
- University of Rochester
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Abstract
This project examines contemporary political and religious movements in Islamic Southeast Asia. It begins with the Makassar people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia and proceeds to a series of comparative and historical analyses to construct a general theoretical argument about the relationship between the small-scale models of the ideal self inculcated through ritual and the large-scale models of the ideal state that have inspired social movements throughout the Islamic world in the modern era.