Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru /
Hoesterey, James Bourk, 1975-
Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru / James Bourk Hoesterey. - 1 online resource - Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center . - Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Authority, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Public Piety; Section One. Religious Authority; Chapter 1. Rebranding Islam: Autobiography, Authenticity, and Religious Authority ; Chapter 2. Enchanting Science: Popular Psychology as Religious Wisdom ; Section Two. Muslim Subjectivity; Chapter 3. Ethical Entrepreneurs: Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism ; Chapter 4: Prophetic Cosmopolitanism: The Prophet Muhammad as Psycho-Civic Exemplar ; Section Three. Politics of Public Piety. Chapter 5. Shaming the State: Pornography and the Moral Psychology of Statecraft Chapter 6. Sincerity and Scandal: The Moral and Market Logics of Religious Authority ; Conclusion. Figuring Islam: Popular Culture and the Cutting Edge of Public Piety; Notes; References; Index.
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader and his message of Sufi ideas blended with Western pop psychology and management theory to examine new trends in the religious and economic desires of an aspiring middle class, the political predicaments bridging self and state, and the broader themes of religious authority, economic globalization, and the end(s) of political Islam. At Gymnastiar's Islamic school, television studios, and MQ Training complex, Hoesterey observed this charismatic preacher developing a training regimen called Manajemen Qolbu into Indonesia's leading self-help program via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. Hoesterey's analysis explains how Gymnastiar articulated and mobilized Islamic idioms of ethics and affect as a way to offer self-help solutions for Indonesia's moral, economic, and political problems. Hoesterey then shows how, after Aa Gym's fall, the former celebrity guru was eclipsed by other television preachers in what is the ever-changing mosaic of Islam in Indonesia. Although Rebranding Islam tells the story of one man, it is also an anthropology of Islamic psychology.
9780804796385 0804796386
Gymnastiar, Abdullah, 1962-
Gymnastiar, Abdullah, 1962-
Muslim religious leaders--Indonesia--Biography.
Celebrities--Indonesia--Biography.
Self-help techniques--Religious aspects.
Muslims--Religious life--Indonesia.
Islam--Psychology.
Chefs religieux musulmans--Indonésie--Biographies.
Célébrités--Indonésie--Biographies.
Autodéveloppement--Aspect religieux.
Musulmans--Vie religieuse.--Indonésie
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Celebrities
Islam--Psychology
Muslim religious leaders
Muslims--Religious life
Self-help techniques--Religious aspects
Indonesia--Religious life and customs.
Indonesia
Biographies
BP80.G93 / R42 2015eb
297.4092
Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru / James Bourk Hoesterey. - 1 online resource - Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center . - Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Authority, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Public Piety; Section One. Religious Authority; Chapter 1. Rebranding Islam: Autobiography, Authenticity, and Religious Authority ; Chapter 2. Enchanting Science: Popular Psychology as Religious Wisdom ; Section Two. Muslim Subjectivity; Chapter 3. Ethical Entrepreneurs: Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism ; Chapter 4: Prophetic Cosmopolitanism: The Prophet Muhammad as Psycho-Civic Exemplar ; Section Three. Politics of Public Piety. Chapter 5. Shaming the State: Pornography and the Moral Psychology of Statecraft Chapter 6. Sincerity and Scandal: The Moral and Market Logics of Religious Authority ; Conclusion. Figuring Islam: Popular Culture and the Cutting Edge of Public Piety; Notes; References; Index.
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader and his message of Sufi ideas blended with Western pop psychology and management theory to examine new trends in the religious and economic desires of an aspiring middle class, the political predicaments bridging self and state, and the broader themes of religious authority, economic globalization, and the end(s) of political Islam. At Gymnastiar's Islamic school, television studios, and MQ Training complex, Hoesterey observed this charismatic preacher developing a training regimen called Manajemen Qolbu into Indonesia's leading self-help program via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. Hoesterey's analysis explains how Gymnastiar articulated and mobilized Islamic idioms of ethics and affect as a way to offer self-help solutions for Indonesia's moral, economic, and political problems. Hoesterey then shows how, after Aa Gym's fall, the former celebrity guru was eclipsed by other television preachers in what is the ever-changing mosaic of Islam in Indonesia. Although Rebranding Islam tells the story of one man, it is also an anthropology of Islamic psychology.
9780804796385 0804796386
Gymnastiar, Abdullah, 1962-
Gymnastiar, Abdullah, 1962-
Muslim religious leaders--Indonesia--Biography.
Celebrities--Indonesia--Biography.
Self-help techniques--Religious aspects.
Muslims--Religious life--Indonesia.
Islam--Psychology.
Chefs religieux musulmans--Indonésie--Biographies.
Célébrités--Indonésie--Biographies.
Autodéveloppement--Aspect religieux.
Musulmans--Vie religieuse.--Indonésie
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Celebrities
Islam--Psychology
Muslim religious leaders
Muslims--Religious life
Self-help techniques--Religious aspects
Indonesia--Religious life and customs.
Indonesia
Biographies
BP80.G93 / R42 2015eb
297.4092