Abstract
The understanding of sharia is always sociologically and epistemologically contingent, because it is mediated through a complex and variable array of religious authorities, popular ethical imaginaries, and media of preservation and transmission. This chapter discusses trends in sharia imaginaries in modern Indonesia, beginning in the early twentieth century but ultimately focusing on developments in post-Soeharto (i.e. post May 1998) Indonesia. The central current of modern Indonesian sharia imaginaries has shown the distinctive imprint of two organizational and epistemic contingencies. These are the history and content of Muslim education in this Southeast Asian country, and the growth and pervasiveness of Islamic social welfare associations. These two ordinary-looking circumstances have had an extraordinary influence on the expectations mainstream Indonesian Muslims bring to the task of understanding God’s commands.
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