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Afterword:Contemporary halal tropism, or Islam and economy between the global and the traditional era
No full textContemporary forms of Islamic economy and Muslim consumerist practices strive to make sense of their experiences of consumerism with reference to select ethical and religious concepts from Muslim tradition in ways that shape the contours of a new hybrid ‘Islamic consumer society’. The unprecedented debates related to the halal classification of products perfectly illustrate the praxeological and ethical shifts underway in the contemporary global Muslim world, with an obvious resonance among non-Muslims. A real halal tropism is at the heart of both pastoral and missionary strategies of production, consumption and circulation of goods and services. The Islamic system of prohibition and of salvation offered is based on tactics of social solidarity, financial support, mutual aid and religious loyalty internal to the Muslim community, which is simultaneously driven by intense missionary activity. Islamic finance emerged in the early 1960s in Egypt out of a concern to offer banking services consistent with ethical standards and observances of Islam
Introduction:Muslim Piety as Economy: Markets, Meaning and Morality in Southeast Asia
No full textSince the 1980s, a global Islamic economy has emerged, giving rise to a specific type of Muslim ethics in the areas of consumption and marketisation. The very idea of ‘economy’ has been re-constructed by diverse Muslim groups, ranging from the personal and the national to the global, and Islamic identities are transforming as a result of these entanglements with the economy. The Islamic economy has attracted interest from states/governments, Muslim organisations, businesses and education, and again, the Southeast Asian region is playing a central role in these transformations. This relates to a central characteristic of the relationship between Islam and the economy in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia: namely, that Islam and the economy are nationalised, that is, national and religious identities are actively fused. Clifford Geertz’s seminal work on Indonesia arguably spearheaded the study of religion and the economy in Southeast Asia. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book
Middle-class projects in modern Malaysia and beyond 1
No full textThis chapter argues that an unpacking of the Malay Muslim middle class over time is important in order to understand the broader picture surrounding this class and its relationship to Malaysian national repertoires such as Islamic revivalism, politics, consumer culture, social mobility and the state-market nexus. Controversies over what Islam is, or ought to be, are intensifying the more cultures of consumption assert themselves and urban Malay middle-class projects, that is, the making of local class culture in Malaysia, are shaped by these controversies. The chapter examines informants who are representative of the broad middle-class terrain. The central research question concerns how Malay Muslim middle-class projects have taken shape in Malaysia since the 1990s. Debates over proper Islamic consumption are of particular significance in the Malay middle class, that is, Malay middle-class projects are given shape in the interfaces between revivalist Islam, consumer culture and the blurred area of everyday respectability
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Introduction: Studying the politics of global halal markets
No full textThis introduction chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that answering the question how are modern halal markets constituted is increasingly important and complex in a globalized world. It explores issues such as the changing spaces of consumption, branding and the marketing of religious music as well as the consumption patterns of Muslim minority groups. The book looks at urban Muslims in China, where the Hui's halal food and eating habits stood out as the most important identity marker in contradistinction to the surrounding Han majority. In Turkey, the politics of identity among Islamists and secularists has been deeply influenced by a "market for identities", in the context of the globalization of the 1980s and 1990s. It explores halal from microsocial or everyday perspectives, but by taking into consideration the "bigger institutional picture" that frames the everyday consumption of halal products
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