Riots Pogroms Jihad by John T. Sidel PAPERBACK 9780801473272

Riots, Pogroms, JihadReligious Violence in Indonesia\nAuthor(s): John T. Sidel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801473272, 978-0801473272\nSynopsis\nIn October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence. Yet the complexities of political and religious struggles in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, remain little known and poorly understood in the West.\n\n In Riots, Pogroms, Jihad, John T. Sidel situates these terrorist bombings and other \""jihadist\"" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop of earlier episodes of religious violence in the country, including religious riots in provincial towns and cities in [tel].