Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia

The role of imams and mosques in health promotion in Western societies—a systematic review protocol

BACKGROUND Muslims comprise 4.8% of the national population in the UK and also form a significant proportion of its ethnic minority population, with trends set to continue for the foreseeable future. With ethnic minority health inequalities deepening further, there is an apparent lack of strategies to effectively tackle this growing problem. Imams, Muslim religious leaders, represent a hitherto...

: Civil Islam : Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia

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The Contest Between Radical-Conservative Islam and Progressive-Liberal Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

Relativization in Sasak and Sumbawa, Eastern Indonesia

On the basis of a detailed study of the relativization phenomena in the dialects of Sasak and Sumbawa in eastern Indonesia, this paper shows that the two crucial assumptions made by Keenan & Comrie on Western Malayo-Polynesian languages are untenable. That is, the Topic in these languages cannot be reinterpreted as Subject and that Austronesian non-Actor focus constructions cannot be considered...

Islam, Politics and Violence in Eastern Sri Lanka

This article bridges Sri Lankan studies and the academic debate on the relation between contemporary Islam and politics. It constitutes a case study of the Muslim community in Akkaraipattu on Sri Lanka’s war-ridden east coast. Over two decades of ethnically colored conflict have made Muslim identity of paramount importance, but the meanings attached to that identity vary substantively. Politici...