How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms
set by institutions of the state and religion? Becoming Better Muslims offers an innovative …

Religion has been profoundly reconfigured in the age of development. Over the past half
century, we can trace broad transformations in the understandings and experiences of …

Whether they are one-off, or part of cycles, disasters have exerted profound long-term
cultural impacts on societies around the world. The verses quoted above, excerpted from a …

On the early morning of 26 December 2004, a 9.4 rupture of the Sunda megathrust off of the
west coast of Sumatra caused a tsunami that impacted countries all around the Indian …

“Halin ai” centres the lived experiences of climate change and disasters of people living with
disabilities in two urban sites in Indonesia–Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan and Mataram …

Based on long-term ethnographic research on HIV/AIDS in Aceh, the author discusses how
various actors in Aceh make AIDS both visible and invisible. This discussion is situated …

This article analyzes a dilemma faced by a young religious teacher in the Indonesian
province of Aceh—namely, whether to continue teaching in an Islamic boarding school or to …

This article presents an exploration of the ways in which law, education, and religious
propagation have been deployed as mutually reinforcing means for engineering social …

Modes of play and playfulness are central to ethics, yet have not been as rigorously
considered by anthropologists as have more earnest forms of ethical life. In this article, I …

This study examines the relationship between disaster and religion by exploring three main
questions: how religion shapes the interpretation of disasters and the subsequent recovery …