Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. About the Contributors xiii
6. 1 M.B. Hooker and Southeast Asian Law: Path-breaking Passions 1
7. 2 Asian Thought and Legal Diversity 31
8. 3 Comparative Law, Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Reflections from Southeast Asia in Search of an Elusive Balance 52
9. 4 Legal Pluralism and Legal Anthropology: Experiences from Indonesia 70
10. 5 Mapping the Relationship of Competing Legal Traditions in the Era of Transnationalism in Indonesia 90
11. 6 Indonesia’s Weak State Courts and Weak Law Fare Poorly in a Pluralist Commercial World 116
12. 7 When Laws Are Not Enough: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Intra-Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia 151
13. 8 Legal Pluralism and the Constitutional Position of East Malaysia’s Indigenous Peoples: The View from the Longhouse 178
14. 9 Sharia, State and Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: How Law Can You Go? 208
15. 10 Negotiating Legal Pluralism in Court: Fatwa and the Crime of Blasphemy in Indonesia 231
16. 11 Islamic Law in Israel: A Case Study in Legal Pluralism 257
17. 12 The Road to Democracy Goes through Religious Pluralism: The Indonesian Case and Thoughts on Post-Mubarak Egypt 293