I am delighted to say that at the end of this month, colleagues at INSITE Middle East will host a manuscript workshop for my long-languishing project Mainline Islam: Islamic Associational Life in Indonesia. This book looks at the mass Islamic organizations in Indonesia over the last century, both documenting organizations from the outer islands that have been overlooked or misunderstood, and putting all the groups across the archipelago in comparative perspective with each other and with analogues around the Muslim world. This answers important questions in Indonesian studies and Islamic studies, including: Why is Indonesian Islam organized in this way? How have these organizations changed over the last century? How are these organizations similar to or different from other models around the world for Islamic associational life and civil society?
The workshop will be held in person in Chapel Hill with limited seats available, but it will be livestreamed over Zoom for anyone to join. (For those in Indonesia for whom this matters, everyone who joins will receive a certificate for their participation.)
More details and a registration link are available online at https://mideast.unc.edu/event/manuscript-workshop-mainline-islam-islamic-associational-life-in-indonesia/ .