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    Stealing Women, Stealing Men: Co-creating cultures of polygamy in a peasantren community in eastern Indonesia
    SMITH, B (Bridgewater State University, 2009)
    The article examines how particular elements of Sasak society structurally facilitate a culture of polygamy in a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) which is managed by male Muslim teachers and preachers (Tuan Guru) who maintain a paradoxical position in society that implicates women in the co-creation of polygamy. By culturally situating Muslim women's experiences in wider Indonesian and local Sasak discursive contexts, and based on anthropological field research techniques, the article elucidates how Muslim women draw on a range of magical forces and prayers that they learn from their Muslim teachers in the pesantren in response to customary marriage laws of 'bride stealing' and orthodox Islam that enable the reproduction of polygamy on the island of Lombok in Eastern Indonesia.
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    Introduction
    SMITH, B ; Blackburn, S ; Syamsiyatun, S ; Blackburn, S ; SMITH, B ; Syamsiyatun, S (Monash University Publishing, 2008)
    Indonesian Islam in a New Era examines the religious practices and identities of Indonesian Muslim women in the post-Suharto era. After 1998, Indonesian Islam changed socially and nationally as society underwent sweeping alterations. Based on new empirical research by sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists from Indonesia and Australia, the book underscores the negotiations Muslim women have made in arenas such as schools, organizations, popular culture, and village life. Whereas theology has until recently dominated studies of women and Islam in Indonesia, this book breaks new ground by examining, from social science perspectives, how Indonesian women negotiate their Muslim identities.
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    Indonesian Islam in a New Era How Women Negotiate Their Muslim Identities
    Blackburn, S ; Smith, BJ ; Syamsiyatun, S (Monash Asia Institute, 2008-01)
    Whereas theology has until recently dominated studies of women and Islam in Indonesia, this book breaks new ground by examining from social science perspectives how Indonesian women negotiate their Muslim identities.
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    Kejawen Islam as Gendered Praxis in Javanese Village Religiosity
    SMITH, B ; Blackburn, S ; Smith, BJ ; Syamsiyatun, S (Monash University Press, 2008)