Religious and pro-violence populism in Indonesia : The rise and fall of a far-right Islamist civilisationist movement
| Autor: | Nicholas Morieson, Ihsan Yilmaz, Greg Barton |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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religious populism
Islamist populism Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) media_common.quotation_subject BL1-2790 Islam 050601 international relations Politics violence State (polity) Political science 050602 political science & public administration media_common Religions. Mythology. Rationalism 05 social sciences Religious studies Oligarchy far-right populism 0506 political science Nationalism Populism civilizationism Indonesia Political economy National identity Rhetoric |
| Zdroj: | Religions Volume 12 Issue 6 Religions, Vol 12, Iss 397, p 397 (2021) |
| Popis: | The first quarter of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of populism around the world. While it is widespread it manifests in its own unique ways in each society, nation, and region. Religious populism, once rarely discussed, has come to take a more prominent role in the politics of a diverse range of societies and countries, as religious discourse is increasingly used by mainstream and peripheral populist actors alike. This paper examines the rise of religious populism in Indonesia through a study of the widely talked about, but little understood, Islamic Defenders Front (FPI—Front Pembela Islam). The case study method used to examine the FPI provides a unique insight into a liminal organization which, through populist and pro-violence Islamist discourse and political lobbying, has had an outsized impact on Indonesian politics. In this paper, we identify the FPI as an Islamist civilizationist populist group and show how the group frames Indonesian domestic political events within a larger cosmic battle between faithful and righteous Muslims and the forces that stand against Islam, whether they be “unfaithful Muslims” or non-Muslims. We also show how the case of the FPI demonstrates the manner in which smaller, liminal, political actors can instrumentalise religion and leverage religious rhetoric to reshape political discourse, and in doing so, drive demand for religious populism. The paper makes two arguments: First, the FPI is an example of a civilizationist populist movement which instrumentalises religion in order to create demand for its populist solutions. Second, that as Islamic groups and organisations in Indonesia increasingly rely on religio-civilizational concepts of national identity, they become more transnational in outlook, rhetoric, and organisation and more closely aligned with religious developments in the Middle East. |
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