Islam, law, and equality in Indonesia an anthropology of public reasoning - Bowen, John Richard (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index
pt. I. Village Repertoires. Law, religion and pluralism ; Adat's local inequalities ; Remapping adat -- pt. II. Reasoning legally through scripture. The contours of the courts ; The judicial history of 'consensus' ; The poisoned gift ; Historicizing scripture, justifying equality -- pt. III. Governing Muslims through family. Whose word is law? ; Gender equality in the family? ; Justifying religious boundaries ; Public reasoning across cultural pluralism
In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and law. John Bowen explores this struggle through archival and ethnographic research and interviews with national figures