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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 2 7This is an ethnographic study of a Muslim society in eastern Java that washeavily affected by the events of 1965. It addresses issues of religious identityand “Javanism,” as well as interaction with and conversion to Hindu religioussystems.Bowen, John R. 1993. Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Soci e t y. Princeton: Princeton University Press.———. 2003. Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of PublicR e a s o n i n g . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Both of these works are excellent anthropological studies of the ways Islamis constructed and interpreted between local and broader contexts in theGayo region of Sumatra. They are also sophisticated essays that go beyondthis local focus to frame approaches that can be useful for the study of Islamin other societies as well.Dijk, Kees van. 2001. A Country in Despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000. L e i-den: KITLV Press.This work chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in Indonesiansociety after the Asian financial crisis and through the fall of Suharto’s NewOrder. It devotes considerable attention to developments within various sectorsof the Indonesian Muslim community.Gade, Anna M. 2004. P e rfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the RecitedQur’an in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.This is a study of widespread contemporary Islamic revitalization in Indonesiain the 1990s. It focuses on the promotion and popularity of practicesrelating to the recitation of the Qur’an, including reading, memorization,and competition.George, Kenneth M., and Mamannoor. 2002. A.D. P i rous: Vision, Faith, and aJ o u rney in Indonesian Art , 1 9 5 5 – 2 0 0 2 . Bandung, Indonesia: Yayasan SerambiP i r o u s .This portrait of the life and work of a Muslim artist from Aceh, Sumatra,vividly illustrates how his painting and calligraphy relate to half a century ofcontemporary experience in Indonesia with respect to politics, Islam, and local,national, and global systems of aesthetics.H e f n e r, Robert W. 2000. Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia.Princeton: Princeton University Press.This historically informed anthropological study of the development of Islamicpolitics has already achieved the status of a classic for its analysis of importantaspects of Indonesia’s late twentieth-century Islamic revival, includ-