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Article: Piety and Politics: Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia.(Book review)
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- SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
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- October 1, 2007
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Piety and Politics: Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia. By Ann Kull. Lund, Sweden: Department of History and Anthropology of Religions, Lund University, 2005. 300 pp.
This is an important and unfortunately timely book. Kull chronicles the life and thought of one of Indonesia's most influential and creative Muslim thinkers; Nurcholish Madjid, or Cak Nur as he was affectionately known, who, as Indonesians often put it "returned to the mercy of God" in August of 2005.
Madjid was an influential and controversial theologian who advocated the both the modernization and Islamicization of Indonesian society, but rejected the ...
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... ... normally addressed to more intimately as Cak Nur, is now still under treatment at the ... Jakarta on Tuesday night confirmed that Cak Nur, who is also PKMI chairman, was still ... at the Chinese hospital. He said that Cak Nur left for China on July 19, 2004, in ...
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