Religion and Spirituality in the Contemporary World: An Indonesian Case Study

巴厘岛爆炸案发生后，印尼的宗教极端主义成为澳大利亚的主要安全担忧。因此，研究重点放在伊斯兰祈祷团(Jemaah Islamic iyah，JI)等规模较小且相当边缘的伊斯兰激进团体的网络上，而导致这种和其他更温和、更受欢迎的新形式宗教信仰的更广泛的国内和国际趋势仍未被探索。这种对极端主义的强调导致了一种刻板印象，即伊斯兰教是不妥协的，多种族和多宗教的印度尼西亚是一个伊斯兰国家。目前的项目将侧重于当今更能代表印度尼西亚社会的多元和相对主义的宗教态度，从而对我们区域宗教复兴的影响作出更平衡的评估。

Religious extremism in Indonesia became a major security concern for Australia after the Bali bombing. Research thus focused on the networks of small and rather marginal Islamic radical groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), while the broader national and international trends that give rise to this and other, more moderate and popular new forms of religiosity remained unexplored. This emphasis on extremism contributed to a stereotyping of Islam as intransigent, and of multi-ethnic and multi-religious Indonesia as an Islamic nation. The current project will deliver a more balanced appraisal of the impact of resurging religiosity in our region by focusing on the pluralistic and relativistic religious attitudes more representative of Indonesian society today.