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<\/a><\/p>\nCivil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia <\/em>by\u00a0Robert Hefner<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0has figured centrally in the renewed discussion on\u00a0Indonesia\u2019s success as a Muslim-majority country transitioning to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n In the aftermath of the setbacks of the Arab Spring, Indonesia\u2019s relatively greater measure of success as a Muslim-majority country transitioning to democracy since 1999 has been the subject of increasing policy and academic scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n On October 27, 2017 the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore organized an international conference retrospective on \u201cCivil Islam Revisited.\u201d\u00a0 Hefner presented the keynote address and Jeremy Menchik,<\/a>\u00a0Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School,<\/span> presented a comparative essay on Islam and democracy in Indonesia.<\/p>\n On January 18, 2018 it was announced that papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the Asian Studies Review<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0Interest in the Indonesian example has also spread to the neighboring Muslim-majority country of Indonesia.\u00a0 On January 15, 2018, the first Malay-language translation was published by the PPAS press in Selangor, Malaysia, with the aim (as its Malaysian promoters explained) of heightening discussion of the lessons of democratization in Indonesia for Malaysia.<\/p>\n Robert Hefner has directed 19 research projects and organized 18 international conferences, and authored or edited nineteen books.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He is former president of the Association for Asian Studies.\u00a0 At CURA, he has directed the program on Islam and civil society since 1991; coordinated interdisciplinary research and public policy programs on religion, pluralism, and world affairs; and is currently involved in two research projects: \u201cThe New Western Plurality and Civic Coexistence: Muslims, Catholics, and Secularists in North America and Western Europe\u201d; and \u201cSharia Transitions: Islamic Law and Ethical Plurality in the Contemporary World.\u201d\u00a0You can read more about him here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jeremy Menchik\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0research interests include comparative politics, religion and politics, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>At Boston University he is a member of the graduate faculty of political science and coordinates the\u00a0MAIA program with specialization in Religion and International Affairs<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof. Robert Hefner’s book Civil Islam<\/i> has figured centrally in the renewed discussion on Indonesia\u2019s success as a Muslim-majority country transitioning to democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414,8432],"tags":[10745,10606,8378,8577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31539,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31508\/revisions\/31539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}