ROBERT
WILLIAM HEFNER
(617)
558-2786; rhefner@bu.edu
Professor of Anthropology,
Associate Director, Institute on Culture, Religion,
and World Affairs (CURA), and Director, Program on Islam and Democracy, CURA,
2004-2007.
Director, “Southeast Asia Education Survey,” National Bureau of Asian
Research,
2006-7.
Co-Director, with Dr. Jamhari, “Muslim Educators’ Views of Islam,
Democracy, and Citizenship.”
Collaborative Survey of 1000 Indonesian educators in four Indonesian
provinces, conducted in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Islam
and Society (PPIM) of the Hidayatullah National Islamic University,
2003-2007.
Invited Editor, The New
2004-2005.
Director, Project on “Madrasas, Modernity, and the Future of Muslim Higher
Education.” A comparative research
project on madrasas and religious education in the Muslim world. Institute for Religion and World Affairs,
2004-2005. Director, with Dr. Azyumardi Azra, Rector,
National Islamic University,
2002-2004.
Director, Project on, “Civil Democratic Islam: Prospects and Policies
for a Changing Muslim World.” This
project brings together fifteen senior scholars to conduct research and prepare
reports on the social and intellectual resources for, and obstacles to,
pluralist democratization in the Muslim world.
Institute for Religion and World Affairs,
2001.
Director, “Civil Society and Social Pluralism in
1998-2000.
Project Organizer and Director, “Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social
Resources for Civility and Participation in
1995-1997:
Project on “Islam, Pluralism, and Democratic Civility.” An examination
of Muslim strategies for managing
religious and ethnic pluralism in contemporary
June-July 1995: Research on “Islam, Democracy, and
Civil Society in
1993-1994. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Project on “Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Indonesian Debates on the 1965-1966 Killings.”
July-August, 1991 & 1992, June-July, 1993: Research on “Islam and
January-August 1985:
Project on “Economy and Morality in Mountain Java.” Research on a) the social history of Islam
and Javanism in rural
November 1978-June 1980: Dissertation research on “Religion and Economic Change Among Tengger (Hindu) Javanese.” An investigation of religious and agrarian change in East Java’s Tengger Highlands, focusing on popular social history, Muslim-Hindu relations, and the forces affecting the cultural identity and social survival of the Hindu minority in an Islamizing Java. Fulbright Hays and National Science Foundation.
September 1975-May 1976: Ethnographic investigation of informal
economic activity among urban workers in
2007-2008.
Carnegie Scholar in Islam, Project on “Islamic Education and
Democratization in
2004-2006. “Madrasas and the Future of Islamic Higher Education.” The Pew Charitable Trusts.
2002-2004. “Civil Democratic Islam: Prospects and Policies for a Changing Muslim World.” The Pew Charitable Trusts.
1998-2001. “Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social
Resources for Civility and Participation in
1998-1999.
“Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social Resources for Civility and
Participation in
1995-1997:
“Islam, Pluralism, and Democratic Civility.” Bertelsmann
1996. “Islam,
Democracy, and Market Change.” Smith
1995 (Spring).
With Dr. Shahla Haeri. “Islam, Rights, Pluralism.”
1994. With
Dr. Hue-Tam Ho Tai,
1993-1994. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Project on “Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Indonesian Debates on the 1965-1966 Killings.”
1991-1992.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University
Teachers. Project on “Muslim
Conversion: The Politics and Meanings of
Religious Change in Island
Spring 1988.
Boston University Humanities Foundation Grant to organize a national
conference, Conversion to World Religions: Ethnographic and Historical
Interpretations.”
Spring 1987.
Spring 1987. Boston University Humanities Foundation Grant for lecture series and course, “Art and Politics in Six Cultures.”
1985-86. National Science Foundation Grant for Indonesian Research.
1985. Fulbright Fellowship (ASEAN Senior Fellow Program) for Indonesian Research.
1985. Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Grant for Indonesian Research (declined).
Winter l981.
Department of Anthropology Dissertation Grant, The
l980-81.
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, The
1979-80. Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship.
1978-80. National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant.
1978.
Summer 1977.
1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78. National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship for Indonesian language study.
l975-76.
French Institute/Alliance Francaise (
1975.
Rackham Developmental Grant,
1998-2001. “Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social Resources for Civility and Participation.” Award from the Ford Foundation to the Program on Civil Society and Civic Participation, Robert Hefner Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University.
January 1990:
Grant for “Research and Education on Religion and Economic Culture,”
with Peter L. Berger. Institute for the
Study of Economic Culture,
March 24, 2007.
Panel Organizer, “A Conservative Turn in Indonesian Islam? The Politics
of Shari`a in
2004-2006.
Director, Project on, “Madrasas and the Future of Muslim
Education.” Institute for Religion and
World Affairs,
2004-2005. Director, with Dr. Azyumardi Azra, Rector,
National Islamic University,
2002-2004.
Director, Project on, “Civil Democratic Islam: Prospects and Policies
for a Changing Muslim World.” Institute
on Religion and World Affairs,
“Southeast Asian Pluralisms: Social Resources for Civility and
Participation.” The Ford Foundation
1996-97.
Director. “Authors Project on
Civic Culture.” Institute for the Study
of Economic Culture,
1994-1995.
Invited American Coordinator, Seminar
on “Islam and Society in
1995. Director and Organizer, Working Group on, “Civil Society and Civic Virtue: On the Role of Associations and Morality in Markets and Democracy.” Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, April 29-30 and October 28-29. A national working group consisting of fifteen scholars from five disciplines assembled to examine the role of public associations in the sustenance of civic values and democratic politics.
1994. Director and Organizer, Conference and Faculty Seminar on “Development, Democracy, and Civil Society.” Institute for the Study of Economic Culture. June 21-July 12.
1994. Director
and Organizer, with Dr. Hue-Tam Ho-Tai,
1991 & 1992.
Director and Organizer, Summer Seminar on “Markets, Values, and
Culture.” Institute for the Study of
Economic Culture. June 17-
1989-1990. Organizer,
Colloquia on “Economy and Culture: New Directions and Research.” (Eight
Lectures). Institute for the Study of
Economic Culture,
1989. Organizer, Session on “The Politics of Religious Rationalization.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 17.
1988. Designer
and Coordinator, Conference on “Conversion
to World Religions: Historical and Ethnographic Interpretations.”
1987. Organizer and Chair, “Southeast Asian Economic Cultures: Political, Moral, and Historical Dimensions.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 13.
1987. Designer
and Coordinator, “Art and Politics in Six Cultures.”
1987. Designer
and Coordinator, “Dan Sperber and the
Anthropology of Mind.”
1986. Organizer,
Session on “Imagined Communities: State
Policy and Local Allegiance in
2007-2008. Invited Inaugural Fellow for the
August-September 2005. Invited Visiting Senior Scholar, Centre for
Southeast Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute,
August 2004. Invited
June-July 2003. Invited
Fall 1999. Visiting Senior Fellow for project on “The Culture and Politics of Malay Identity,” Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (ATMA), Prof. Shamsul A.B. Director, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
1998. Finalist,
Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence,
1988.
l987-88. Junior Fellow,
November 1986. Invited panel member, “New Religions,
Movements, and Developments in East and
1986. Hindu-Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year,” by Choice, magazine of the American Library Association.
1974. Elected to membership, Phi Beta Kappa.
1974. Highest Honors in Anthropology With
Distinction. Senior Thesis: “Toward a
Cultural Theory of Political Conflict in
Spring 1982.
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of
Summer 1978.
Intensive Javanese, Indonesian Summer Studies Institute,
Summer l977.
1975. Master
of Arts in Anthropology, The
1974.
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, The
1974.
Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Civilization, Department of
Romance Languages, The
1972-73.
L’Universite de
1970. High
School Diploma,
Advanced
Working Capabibility: Dutch, Spanish.
September 1-9, 2007.
Invited Senior Lecturer, Summer Graduate Program on “Religion, Culture,
and Society,” University Centre-St. Ignatius Antwerp,
1999, January-July.
Visiting Professor, Program Pascasarjana (
Fall 1982 to present. Department of Anthropology,
Fall 1980.
Teaching Assistant, The
1979-80.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
Democracy and Democratization Across Cultures;
Politics: The Making of the Modern World; Nations and Nationalism; Political
Anthropology; Anthropological Study of
Religion; Islam and Modernity; Religious
Social Movements; Capitalism and Cultures;
2007-. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Society.
March-April 2004.
Project Assessor, “CDIE Civil Society Assessment/Indonesia.” Management Systems International for the
USAID. Assessment of Asia Foundation programs on Islam and Civil Society in
1998-2002.
Director, “Southeast Asian Pluralisms.” The Ford Foundation,
1992-2000.
Director, Program on Civil Society and Civic Culture, Institute for the
Study of Economic Culture,
Spring 1989 to present. Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture.
Summer 1984.
Scholar in Residence, Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute,
1981-82.
Research Assistant for Professor Clifford Geertz. The Institute for Advanced Study,
Spring 1978.
Instructional Associate, Project on Asian Studies in Education (an
outreach program),
Spring 1977.
Research Assistant for Project on “Peasantry and Social Change in
1975-76.
Field Investigator, Project on Informal Economy. Dr. Louis Ferman, Director,
1975-76.
Research Assistant for Project on “Models of Southeast Asian Social
Structure.” Dr.
Summer 1975.
Research Assistant, Project on Informal Economy,
2007-.
Invited Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam
Policy Studies,
2007-.
Invited Member, Program on Religion and International Studies, Prof.
Alfred Stepan Director, Social Science Research Council,
2007-2009.
Invited Advisor, project on “Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities,” a
comparative project on religion and transregional culture among migrants in
2007.
Faculty, Institute on Religion and World Affairs Summer Seminar on
“Religion and Global Politics.” Session
on Religion in the
2004-2007.
Elected Member,
2004-. Editorial Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin Press and University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Series on Southeast Asian Studies.
2004-.
Invited Member, Advisory Board on Research Series on Islam and Muslim
Affairs.
2003-2005. Advisory Committee, Religion in Global Politics Project, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2002-2005. Invited Member, Association for Asian Studies Book Project Committee, “Asian Studies Books for Undergraduate Education.”
2002.
Faculty, Institute on Religion and World Affairs Summer Seminar on
“Religion and Modern Politics.” Session
on Religion in the
2001-. Series Editor, Palgrave Press and the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, “Contemporary Anthropology of Religion.”
2000-2002 Invited Member, Senior Advisory Panel for Cultural Anthropology, The National Science Foundation.
1999-2001.
Invited Member, Faculty Advisory Council, Center for the Study of World
Religions,
1997-2000.
Invited Member, “Seminar on Cultural Globalization,” Center for
International Affairs,
1996. Invited member, Selection Committee for the United State-Indonesia Society (A private U.S.-Indonesian Foundation) USINDO Summer Studies Program, Washington D.C. (April 19).
1994-1995.
(Invited) American Coordinator, Seminar on Islam and Society in
Southeast Asia,
1993-1996.
Invited Member, Discipline Advisory Committee (Anthropology), Fulbright
Program, CIES,
1993-1996. Invited member of the Selection Committee, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Studies Institute, Association for Asian Studies.
1990-1998.
Fellowship Reader,
1990-1992.
First-stage Application Reader, The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute,
May 16, 1992.
Invited member of the Central Selection Committee for ACLS-SSRC NEH/Ford
Post-Doctoral Fellowships,
May 3-4, 1992.
Invited member of the steering committee for the conference, “Islam in
Southeast Asia,” SE Asian Studies, University of
1991. Invited Member, Program Planning Committee, General Anthropology Division, For the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
1991 to 1996.
Invited member of the Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the ACLS and
SSRC,
1987-1990.
1988-1991.
Invited member of the ‘Festival of
1986-1991. Contributing Editor for Antara Kita, Bulletin of the Indonesian Studies Committee of the Association for Asian Studies.
1983-86. Elected member of the Indonesian Studies Committee of the Association for Asian Studies.
1986-1989.
Invited member of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social
Science Research Council Panel, “New Religions and Religious Movements in East
and
Invited Memberships: American Society for the Study of Religion (Invited 1995).
Professional Memberships: The American Anthropology Association. American Ethnological Society.
Association
for Asian Studies. Koninklijk Instituut voor
Association
Archipel (Paris), The Middle East Studies Association of
Society for the Anthropology of Religion.
Editorial
Advisor: Kultur: The Indonesian
Journal for Muslim Cultures,
Associate Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs.
April 1989-present, Director, Program on Islam and Civil Society.
University Committees: Presidentially-appointed chairman, Fulbright and DAAD Scholarships Committee, 1996-1999, & 2000-2007; member, 1993-1996.
Member, CAS Academic Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1997-1998, 2001-2002, 2003-2004
Member, Social Science Curriculum Committee, 2005-2007.
Chairman, Academic Policy Committee, 1989-1990. Member of APC, 1987-1990.
Core Curriculum Development Committee, 1989-1990. Elected to CLA/GRS Faculty Council, 1988-1989.
University Presidential Fellowships Committee, 1985-1987. University Seed Grant Committee, 1988-1991.
Member, Advisory Committee on Women, 1990-1991.
Department Committees: Director of Graduate Admissions, 2006-7. Director of Graduate Studies, 1994-1999,2000-2003. Curriculum Committee (1982-93, 2000-2006), Chair, 1990-91, 1996-1998. Library Committee, Chair (1986-1990). Fellowships Committee (1983-1990; 1994-1998, 2000-2003). Admissions Committee (1983-1990; Chair 1988; 1994-2003). Graduate Committee (1988-present; Chair Spring 1988 and 1989, 1994-98, 2000-2003). Hiring Committee 1985-86, 1987-88. Director of Undergraduate Advising, 1984-85. Advisor for Anthropology Minors, 1983-92. Advisor BA-MA program 1998-present.
Forthcoming. Islamic Schools in
Forthcoming.
Editor. Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society Since 1800. New
2007 (February).
Editor, with Muhammad Qasim Zaman.
Schooling Islam: The Culture and
Politics of Modern Muslim Education.
Princeton: Series on Muslim Politics,
2005. Editor. Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism,
Contestation, Democratization.
Princeton: Series on Muslim Politics,
2001. Editor. The Politics of Multiculturalism:
Pluralism and Citizenship in
2000. Civil Islam:
Muslims and Democratization in
2000. Islam, Pasar, Keadilan: Artikulasi Lokal,
Kapitalisme, dan Demokrasi [Islam, Markets, Justice: Local Articulations of Capitalism and
Democracy].
1998. Editor, Democratic Civility: The History and
Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal.
1998. Editor, Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press.
2000. Indonesian edition translated by T. Iskandar
Ali and published as Budaya Pasar: Masyarakat dan Moralitas dalam
Kapitalisme Asia Baru.
1997. Editor, with
Patricia Horvatich. Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in
Muslim
2001. Indonesian
edition translated by Imron Rosyidi and published as, Islam di Era Negara
Bangsa.
1995. ICMI dan Perjuangan menuju Kelas Menengah
1993. Editor. Conversion
to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great
Transformation.
1990. The
Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History.
1999. Translated and published in
1985. Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam. Princeton:
Forthcoming.
“God’s Law Revisited: Human Rights and Democracy in Islam.” In Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow, eds., Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights.
Forthcoming.
“Religion and Modernity Worldwide.”
Forthcoming in Peter Clark, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Sociology of Religion,
Forthcoming.
“Islamic Knowledge and Education in the Modern Age.” In Robert W. Hefner, ed. New
Forthcoming.
“Islam in
2007 (January).
“The sword against the crescent: religion and violence in Muslim
Southeast Asia.” In Linell E. Cady and
Sheldon W. Simon, eds., Religion and
Conflict in South and
2006 (November/December). “Islamic Economics and Global Capitalism.” In Society, 44:1: 16-22.
2006 (January).
“Islam Matters: Culture and Progress in the Muslim World.” In
2006 (January).
“Cultural Matters and Developmental Dilemmas in
2006 (January).
“State, Society, and Secularity in Contemporary
2005 (November).
“Social Legacies and Possible Futures.”
In John Bresnan, ed.,
2005. “Protestantisme Islam dan Reformasi Protestan: Tanggapan untuk Sukidi” [Protestant Islam and the Christian Protestant Reformation: A Response to Sukidi]. Invited Featured Article (3000 words), commenting on the relevance of the Protestant Reformation for contemporary efforts to reform Islamic culture, Kompas (Jakarta), April 6, p. 8.
2004.
“Fredrik Barth og demokratiseringsantropologien” [Fredrik Barth and the
anthropology of democracy]. In Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift (
2004.
“Shariah Formalism or Democratic Communitarianism? The Islamic Resurgence and Political Theory.”
In Chua Beng-Huat, ed., Democracy and Communitarianism in
2004. “Hindu
Reform in an Islamizing Java: Pluralism and Peril.” In Martin Ramstedt, ed., Hinduism in Modern
2003. “Civil
Islam and Political Violence in
2003.
“Political Islam in
2003. “Civic
Pluralism Denied? The New Media and Jihadi Violence in
2002. Civil Islam, Democratisation,
and Violence in
2002. “Global Violence and Indonesian Muslim Politics.” Special Section, “In Focus: September 11, 2001.” American Anthropologist 104:3 (September): 754-65.
2002 (fall).
“Islam and Asian Security.”
Invited chapter in Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, eds., Strategic
Asia 2002-03: Asian Aftershocks, pp. 351-92.
2002. “The
Struggle for the Soul of Islam.” In
Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, eds., Understanding September
11, pp. 41-52. Project coordinated
by the Social Science Research Council,
2002. “11 September and the Struggle for Islam.” Ethnicities 2:2 (June): 144-46.
2002. “Civil
Islam and Democracy Reconsidered.” In Kultur: The Indonesian Journal for
Muslim Cultures (
2002. “Indonesian Muslims after 9-11.” Anthropology News 43:5 (May): 52.
2002. “Indonesian Islam at the Crossroads.” Van Zorge Intelligence Report 4:3 (February 19): 12-20.
2001 (October).
“Pengantar: Demokrasi dan Tantangan Pluralisme” [“Introduction: Democracy and the Challenge of
Pluralism.”] In Akhmad Fikri AF, ed., Ngesuhi
Deso Sak Kukuban: Pluralisme dan Model Sosial Demokrasi [Pluralism and
Social Capital for Democracy], pp. xii-xix.
2001. “Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization.” Sociology of Religion, Special Issue, Guest Edited by José Casanova, 62:4:491-514.
2000.
“Disintegration or Democratization?
Muslim Christian Violence and the Future of
2000.
“Profiles in Pluralism: Religion
and Politics in Muslim
2000. “The Divided Nation: Suharto’s Malukan Legacy.” Invited top-page op-editorial. The Asian Wall Street Journal, August 16.
2000.
“Pluralisme di Indonesia dan Masalahnya” [Indonesian Pluralism and Its
Problems]. In Ahmad Suaedy, ed., Pesantren
dan Demokratisasi [
2000.
“Religious Ironies in
2000.
“Humanitarian Intervention in
1999. “Islam
and Nation in the Post-Suharto Era.” In
Adam Schwarz and Jonathan Paris, eds., The
Politics of Post-Suharto
1998. “Multiple Modernities: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in a Globalizing Age.” Annual Review of Anthropology 27:83-104.
1998. “Vier
Lektionen uber die Idee der Civil Society.”
In Emil Brix, ed., Civil Society in Osterreich, pp.
19-46.
1998.
“Secularization and Citizenship in Muslim
1998. “On the
History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Democratic Ideal.” In R. Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a
Modern Political Ideal, pp. 3-49.
1998. “A Muslim Civil Society? Indonesian Reflections on the Conditions of Its Possibility.” In Robert W. Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal, pp. 285-321.
1998, January 25.
“
1998. “Civil Society: Cultural Possibility of a Modern Ideal.” In Society 35 (March-April):3:16-27. Lead article in a special, “Symposium: The Future of Democratic Civility.”
1998.
“Current Islamic Fora and their Political Implications.” In Islam in Contemporary
1998. “Introduction: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms.” In Hefner, ed., Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, pp. 1-38
1998. “Markets and Justice for Muslim Indonesians.” In Hefner, ed., Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, pp. 224-50.
1997. “Islam
and Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary
1997. “Print
Islam: Mass Media and Ideological Rivalries among Indonesian Muslims.”
1996. “Islamizing Capitalism: On the Founding of
Indonesia’s First Islamic Bank.” In Mark
Woodward, ed., Toward a New Paradigm:
Recent Developments in Indonesian Islamic Thought, pp. 291-322.
Translated into Indonesian and published in Woodward, ed., Jalan Baru Islam (Bandung: Mizan, 1998), pp. 255-81.
2003.
Reprinted in Shari’a and Politics in Modern
1995.
“Modernity and the Challenge of Pluralism: Some Indonesian
Lessons.” Studia Islamika (
1995. “Islam
and the Spirit of Capitalism.” In Max
L. Stackhouse and Dennis P. McCann
(eds.), On Moral Business: Classical and
Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life, pp. 363-67.
1994.
“Islam, Negara dan Masyarakat Sipil”
[Islam, State, and Civil Society; a translation of
1994. “Reimagined Community: A Social History of
Muslim Education in Pasuruan,
1993. “Islam,
State, and Civil Society: I.C.M.I. and the Struggle for the Indonesian Middle
Class.” In
1993. “
1993. “Of Faith and Commitment: Christian Conversion in Muslim Java.” In R. Hefner, ed., Conversion to Christianity, pp. 99-125.
1992. “Hierarchy and Stratification: The Case of
Java.” In Myron L. Cohen, ed.,
1991.
“Ethnicity, Nation, and Nationalism in Modern
1991. Reprinted as “Staat, Nation und Ethnizitat in
modernen Indonesien.” In Erich Froschl,
Maria Mesner, and
1991. “The
Integrative Revolution Revisited” (With Allan Hoben). In World
Development 19:1:17-30. 1993
Translated and Published in Risco (
1991. “Java’s
Five Regional Cultures”; “Javanese Religion: A Gentle Blend of Islam and Adat”;
“The Badui: Preservers of Archaic Pre-Islamic Ways”; “
1987. “The
Political Economy of Islamic Conversion in Modern
1987.
“Islamizing Java? Religion and
Politics in Rural
1987. “Politics and Social Identity: Introduction.” In The Journal of Asian Studies 3:46:491-493.
1987. “The
Politics of Popular Art: Tayuban Dancing
and Culture Change in Java.” In
1985.
“Masyarakat Tengger Dalam Sejarah Nasional
1985.
“Japa-Mantra Hindu Kuno Dalam Tradisi Tengger” (Old Hindu Prayers in
Tengger Tradition). With Nancy J.
Smith-Hefner. Publication for the Hindu Parisada, Pasuruan,
1983. “Ritual and Cultural Reproduction in non-Islamic Java.” In American Ethnologist 10:4:665-83.
1983. “The
Problem of Preference: Economic and
Ritual Change in
1978.
“Economic Man and His Meanings.” In
1977. “Baudrillard’s Noble Anthropology: The Image of Symbolic Exchange in Political Economy.” In Substance 17:105-13.
1975. “Leiris and Anthropology.” In Substance 11-12:136-46.
1975. “Les Lieux Dits: Structure et Langage Chez Ricardou.” In Rackham Literary Studies 6:13-19.
1974. “The Tel Quel Ideology: Material Practice on Material Practice.” In Substance 8:82-95.
July 17, 2007.
“Islam in Contemporary
June 16, 2007.
“Islamic Education in
October 12-15, 2006.
Title VI External Evaluator, “Mid-term Review of the Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign Language Program (UISFL).” Report to Center
for International Studies and Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
May 2006. “Enriching
Islamic Education: An Evaluation of the Indonesian Pesantren Development
Program Operated by the Institute on Training and Development and Sponsored by
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
May 2005.
“Islam and Education in
March 2005.
“Public Diplomacy and
October-December 2004. “Indonesian Perceptions of the
March 2004.
With
June 2003.
“Islam in
Forthcoming.
“
2002.
“Muhammadiyah.” Encyclopedia
of Islam and the Muslim World, Richard C. Martin, ed., pp. 463-4.
2001.
“Southeast Asian Studies, Culture.”
In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors,
pp. 14,666-70.
1999.
“Tengger: The Hindu
Javanese.” In James J. Fox, ed., Encylopedia of the Indonesian Heritage.
1998.
“Conversion,” pp. 191-193; “
1995.
“Syncretism.” In John L. Esposito
(ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic
World.
March 2004. Review of Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity." H-Gender-MidEast, H-Net Reviews. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=89361083559676.
November 2001. “September 11 and the Struggle for Islam.” Invited essay at “After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences,” the Social Science Research Council.
February 13, 2001.
“Muslim-Christian Violence in the Maluccas: The Role of National
Influences.” United States Congressional Commission on International Religious
Freedom Web Site,
1998. “Civil Society and Democracy.” In Civnet Journal (Journal For Civil Society). Lead article, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May-June).
2002. “Islam and French Anthropology.” A review article of Dominique Casajus, Gens
de parole: Langage, Poésie et politique en pays Touareg and Pierre Bonte,
Anne-Marie Brisebarre, and Altan Gokalp, Sacrifices en Islam: Éspaces et
temps d’un rituel. In Current
Anthropology 43:1 (February)
886-888.
2001
(March). Review of Shifting Languages: Interaction and
Identity in Javanese
2000. “Three Styles in the Study of Nations.” A review article on Language, Identity,
and Marginality in
1996. Review of Andree Feillard, Islam et Armée dans l’Indonésie
Contemporaine. In
1994. “Bringing the State Back In.” A review of V. Matheson Hooker, Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia and Rita Smith Kipp, Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society. In American Anthropologist 96:4 (December): 976-79.
1994. Review Article, “Disciplined Manner,” a review of Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. In Current Anthropology 35:4 (August-October): 477-479.
1990. “Culture and Economy in a Southeast Asian Periphery.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 18:1: 27-38.
1983. “The Culture Problem in Human Ecology: A Review Article.” In Comparative Studies in Society and History 25:3:547-56.
Forthcoming.
Review of Thomas Menkhoff, Hans-Dieter Evers, and Yue Wah Chay, eds., Governing and Managing Knowledge in
Asia. In Journal of Asian Business.
2007. Review
of Noorhaidi Hasan, Laskar Jihad: Islam,
Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order
Forthcoming.
Review of Anna M. Gade, Perfection
Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and
the Recited Qur’an in
2007. Review
of Tun-Jen Cheng and Deborah A. Brown, eds., Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary
Forthcoming.
Review of James Siegel, Naming the
Witch. In American Anthropologist.
2007 (May). Review of Bill Maurer, Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. In American Ethnologist, Book Reviews