CFP: Special issue on "Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia"

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Dear Colleagues,

The special issue "Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia" (guest editor: Dr. Chiara Formichi, Cornell University) in /Religions/ is open for submission.

The history of Islam in Southeast Asia has been traditionally narrated as one derivative of the Middle Eastern experience and, oftentimes, as a reality that largely belongs to the majority areas of the Indo-Malay sphere. 

This Special Issue of the journal Religions, “Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia”, intends to challenge these narratives, problematizing both the way Muslim Southeast Asia has been defined as a region, and how the category of “Islam” has been deployed in that context, harnessed to the dichotomies of core/periphery, authenticity/syncretism, local/foreign, ethnicity/religion, and majority/minority.

Abstracts are invited from authors working in all disciplines and all areas of Southeast Asia, although the editors are particularly interested in contributions addressing: the intersection of Islam and the arts; Islam and gender; borderland communities; transnational and Intra-Asian connections; comparative studies within the region; and studies of Islam beyond Southeast Asia’s “Islamic arc”.

See our special issue website for more information: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/ReframingIslamSA. The submission deadline for this special issue is 15 August 2019. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract the Editorial Office in advance (religions@mdpi.com).

Religions Editorial Office

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Editor-Bingjin He, Religions Editorial Office

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