Article: Piety and Politics: Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia.(Book review)

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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