RT Article
T1 Challenging Islamist Populism in Indonesia through Catholic Youth Activism
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 6
A1 Nilan, Pam
A1 Wibowanto, Gregorius Ragil
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1761754084
AB This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion of Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. They actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups and with pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest independent Islamic organisation in the world. Islamist populism prioritises religious identity over the national identity of citizenship. In framing their citizenship activism against the current tide of Islamist populism, the informants in our study selectively engaged aspects of Catholic theology. They articulated their religious identity as coterminous with a nationalist identity centred on multi-faith tolerance and harmony. That discourse in itself refutes a key principle of Islamist populism in Indonesia, which argues for primordial entitlement.
K1 Catholic Youth
K1 Indonesia
K1 Islamist populism
DO 10.3390/rel12060395