Mualaf Chic: Conversion and Mediation in Indonesian Pious Sociality

Mualaf Chic: Conversion and Mediation in Indonesian Pious Sociality

Mualaf Chic: Conversion and Mediation in Indonesian Pious Sociality
Carla Jones Article Scholars of the visible rise of public forms of Islamic piety movements in Indonesia in the past two decades have noted its transnational character. Unsurprisingly, Arab inspiration has been prominent, as direct clerical influence and indirect aesthetic prestige. In this article, I suggest that another feature of this shared religious community relays a slightly different allure, that of accessing and domesticating foreignness through conversion and…