Book Review

Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn

Volume: 4 Number: 2 June 12, 2014
  • Kevin W. Fogg
TR EN

Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn

Abstract

First paragraph: The creeping expansion of a Western-normative modernity has posed a challenge both for non-Western societies and for scholars of those regions. For the societies, the struggle is to adapt to the disruptive trends of individualization, commoditization, technological transformation, and others while still maintaining the characteristics that mark their cultural difference. For scholars, the task is not just to document the struggle of non-Western societies, but more to understand the essential characteristics of the “modern age” and “modernity” without essentializing these two down to contemporary Western practice or denying their existence. This book, edited by the anthropologists Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn, attempts to use observations from Muslim societies in Southeast Asia (in the states of Malaysia and Indonesia, but certainly not focused on those state identities) to probe current definitions of modernity. 

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Religious Studies

Journal Section

Book Review

Authors

Kevin W. Fogg This is me
0000-0001-7690-5023
United Kingdom

Publication Date

June 12, 2014

Submission Date

June 1, 2013

Acceptance Date

September 1, 2013

Published in Issue

Year 2013 Volume: 4 Number: 2

APA
Fogg, K. W. (2014). Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn. Ilahiyat Studies, 4(2), 279-281. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93
AMA
1.Fogg KW. Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn. IS. 2014;4(2):279-281. doi:10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93
Chicago
Fogg, Kevin W. 2014. “Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, Edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn”. Ilahiyat Studies 4 (2): 279-81. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93.
EndNote
Fogg KW (June 1, 2014) Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn. Ilahiyat Studies 4 2 279–281.
IEEE
[1]K. W. Fogg, “Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn”, IS, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 279–281, June 2014, doi: 10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93.
ISNAD
Fogg, Kevin W. “Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, Edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn”. Ilahiyat Studies 4/2 (June 1, 2014): 279-281. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93.
JAMA
1.Fogg KW. Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn. IS. 2014;4:279–281.
MLA
Fogg, Kevin W. “Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, Edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn”. Ilahiyat Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 279-81, doi:10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93.
Vancouver
1.Kevin W. Fogg. Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia, edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Kahn. IS. 2014 Jun. 1;4(2):279-81. doi:10.12730/13091719.2013.42.93
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