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Understanding the Oppressed: a Study of the Ahmadiyah and Their Strategies for Overcoming Adversity in Contemporary Indonesia
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Abstract The Ahmadiyah is a highly controversial Islamic reformist movement that is persecuted throughout the Muslim world. In Indonesia, the movement’s situation has become increasingly precarious with the growth of conservative Islam. This article examines the everyday experiences of oppression suffered b... mehr
The Ahmadiyah is a highly controversial Islamic reformist movement that is persecuted throughout the Muslim world. In Indonesia, the movement’s situation has become increasingly precarious with the growth of conservative Islam. This article examines the everyday experiences of oppression suffered by individual Ahmadis at the hands of the
state and their Muslim opponents in Indonesia, and looks at their responses to these experiences. I found that Ahmadis employ six diverse strategies to emotionally, socially, and spiritually withstand adversity. These strategies are conceptualised under the following labels: ‘Fortitude through faith and spirituality’, ‘Rationalising oppression’, ‘Ideological
manoeuvring’, ‘Acts of resistance’, ‘Harmonising identity’, and ‘Satisfying the need to belong’. I argue that the agency of Indonesian Ahmadis is
embedded in these strategies, which mitigate their suffering, and at times seek to change oppressive social environments. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Indonesien; Islam; islamische Gesellschaft; religiöse Gruppe; religiöse Bewegung; Unterdrückung; Diskriminierung; Menschenrechte; Freiheitsrecht; Bürgerrecht; Exklusion; soziale Integration; Minderheit; Minderheitenrecht; Südostasien
Klassifikation
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Religionssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Ahmadiyah; Ahmadiyya
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 29-58
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 35 (2016) 1
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)