Center for Global Islamic Studies

REGISTER NOW Relationships between the state and organized religion are commonly explained in secular political terms, whether as politicization or co-optation of religion. Both explanatory paradigms presuppose rigid distinctions between the political and the religious, and between state and society, thereby foreclosing explorations into the polyvalent character of the state and religion as reproduced in and through multiple social domains. Observing the fluctuating relationship between an Islamic community leader and different state actors in contemporary Indonesia, this talk proposes the notion of articulation to think about…