Séminaire PredicMO avec Yanwar Pribadi et Stéphane Lacroix
Séminaire mensuel de PredicMO - Grammaires de la prédication : lexique, cartographie, mise en scène (Moyen-Orient, XIXe-XXIe siècles)
Mardi 15 avril 2025, 14h-16h, médiathèque de la MMSH, salle Seurat, Aix-en-Provence et en visioconférence : lien Zoom / ID de réunion : 926 8250 6928 / Code secret : 113878
Yanwar Pribadi (Indonesian International Islamic University) et Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po CERI) présenteront leurs recherches en cours sur le thème "Dynamiques de la prédication islamique : regards comparés depuis l'Indonésie". La présentation sera suivie par la discussion d’un article sur les objets religieux dans les musées animée par Marie-Laure Boursin (IDEAS).
Indonesia has long been regarded as a region peripheral to Muslim communities compared to the Middle East, often seen as the ‘center’ of Islam. One possible cause of this neglect is the fact that Indonesia has for centuries seen syncretic manifestations of Islamic rituals, which do not correspond to the ‘standard’ image of Islam. Nevertheless, things have changed, firstly after the global Islamic revivalist period of the 1970s and secondly since the collapse of the authoritarian New Order administration in 1998. These periods have caused some Muslims in Indonesia to embrace more conservative and (in their view) ‘purer’ interpretations of Islam. Religious diversity in today’s Indonesia is frequently set against the background that some Indonesian Muslims have become more self-consciously Islamic – an Islamization that is both momentous and ongoing. This process has come along with a widening and fortification of religious observance.
Our presentation will attempt to address issues from the Indonesian case that seem relevant to the Predicmo project. Stéphane Lacroix will make initial comparative remarks, reflecting on his previous studies on the Middle East and his current work on Indonesia. Yanwar Pribadi will then more specifically address the ongoing transformations of Indonesian urban and rural religiosity, through a study of the pengajian - Islamic study groups that have become a prime preaching venue across the country.
Yanwar Pribadi is a professor of anthropology of religion at Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) and at UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten, Indonesia. He graduated from Leiden University (MA and PhD). Yanwar Pribadi is the author of Islam, State and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in Madura (Routledge, 2018) and of numerous articles in edited volumes, encyclopaedias, and journals. His research interests include Muslim politics and expressions, religious networks, contemporary Islamic history, and citizenship.
Stéphane Lacroix is an associate professor of political science at Sciences Po, a senior researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and the co-director of Sciences Po's Chair for the study of religion. His work deals with religion and politics, with a focus on the Gulf and Egypt. He is now starting a new project on Indonesia. He is the author of Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Harvard University Press, 2011), Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change (Cambridge University Press, 2015, with B.Haykel and T. Hegghammer), Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Jean-Pierre Filiu) and more recently Le crépuscule des saints: histoire et politique du salafisme en Egypte (CNRS Editions, 2024, forthcoming in English with Columbia University Press).