Faculty
Robert Hefner


Faculty Member

Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs - Program on Islam and Civil Society

Professor of Anthropology

rhefner@bu.edu

232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-2194

Interests:
  • Comparative Muslim Culture and Politics
  • Islamic Law and Public Ethics
  • South and Southeast Asia

Courses:
AN 319: Muslim Cultures and Politics
AN 321: Political Anthropology: The Making of the Modern World

Publications:

2007. Editor, with Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

2006. Editor. Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society Since 1800. New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 6. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

2005. Editor. Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

2001. Editor. The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

2000. Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia. Princeton University Press. Published as Civil Islam: Islam dan Demokratisasi di Indonesia, in Indonesian translation by the Institute for the Study of the Free Flow of Information (ISAI), Jakarta, spring 2001.

2000. Islam, Pasar, Keadilan: Artikulasi Lokal, Kapitalisme, dan Demokrasi [Islam, Markets, Justice: Local Articulations of Capitalism and Democracy]. Yogyakarta: LKiS Press.

1998. Editor, Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal. Transaction Press. 1998.

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. (Jakarta: LP3ES Press, Jakarta, 2000).

1997. Editor, with Patricia Horvatich. Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press.

2001. Indonesian edition translated by Imron Rosyidi and published as, Islam di Era Negara Bangsa. (Yogyakarta: Tiara Wacana Press).

1995. ICMI dan Perjuangan menuju Kelas Menengah Indonesia. (ICMI and the Struggle For an Indonesian Middle Class). Yogyakarta (Indonesia): PT Tiara Wacana Yogya. Translated by Endi Haryono, with an Introduction by Emha Ainun Nadjib.

1993. Editor. Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation. (Berkeley: University of California Press).

1990. The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History. University of California Press.

1999. Translated and published in Indonesia as, Geger Tengger: Perubahan Sosial dan Perkelahian Politik (Yogyakarta: LKiS Press, 1999).

1985. Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam. (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

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