Transformations of Heterodoxy

Author(s):
Bruinessen, M. van
Published
2001
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

On 21 November 2000, Martin van Bruinessen, ISIM Chair at Utrecht University, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Muslims, Minorities and Modernity: The Restructuring of Heterodoxy in the Middle East and Southeast Asia'. The lecture compared Alevism in Turkey with kebatinan in Indonesia, where adherents of heterodox folk belief and practice - rather than gradually shifting towards scripturalist, sharica oriented Islam - were transformed into distinct religious minorities deliberately distancing themselves from orthodox Islam. The following is composed of excerpts from the lecture.

Lecture
Date issued
2001
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Newsletter (2001), Vol. 7, no. 1, p. 5-5
hdl
1887/17490