The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel; Koehler-Derrick, Gabriel; Marx, Benjamin

doi:10.3386/w25151

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“…First, while sects can invest to expand their capacity, expansion of religious infrastructure involves fixed costs and may take time to materialize. On top of that, while an increase in the number of adherents may increase sects' revenues, larger transfers to religious groups to sponsor the expansion of religious infrastructure (as documented by Bazzi et al, 2020) may become scarcer during recessions. Thus, in the short run, supply may be more responsive at the intensive margin.…”

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“…We show that religious conversion toward Pentecostalism was a persistent and far-reaching response to changing economic conditions. Recent studies have documented how religion help shaping both individual preferences (Guiso et al, 2003;Basten and Betz, 2013) and national institutions over the centuries (Rubin, 2017;Bazzi et al, 2020). In particular, the conversion of beliefs, rather than the intensification of practices within a common set of beliefs, may have deeper social implications, as indoctrination may sway people's preferences (Alesina and Fuchs-Sch ündeln, 2007).…”

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Stop Suffering! Economic Downturns and Pentecostal Upsurge

Costa

Junior

Rocha

2022

Journal of the European Economic Association

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This paper estimates the effects of economic downturns on the expansion of Pentecostal Evangelicalism in Brazil. Regions more exposed to economic distress experienced a persistent rise both in Pentecostal affiliation and in the vote share of candidates connected to Pentecostal churches in national legislative elections. Once elected, these politicians carried out an agenda with greater emphasis on issues that are sensitive to fundamental religious principles. We, therefore, find that recessions led to the rise of religious fundamentalism in tandem with the transfer of political capital to elected Pentecostal leaders.

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Stop Suffering! Economic Downturns and Pentecostal Upsurge

Costa

Junior

Rocha

2022

Journal of the European Economic Association

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“…Second, because Islamic populism is also found in rural areas, the study of Islamic populism must also be directed to the villages. Research conducted by Bazzi et al (2018), Pamungkas (2018), and Buehler ( 2016) is a good introduction to seeing this phenomenon. However, capitalism as a "social relation" is still not the unit of analysis in these studies.…”

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Islamic Populism in Rural Indonesia: An Agrarian Change Approach

2022

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A massive demonstration in Jakarta called “Aksi Bela Islam” (Action to Defend Islam) marks a continuity of the Islamist currents in post-New Order Indonesia. Many observers called it “Islamic populism”, a populist, cross-class alliance on behalf of the Islamic masses or “ummah” against capitalist development that has marginalized Muslims in the struggle for access to economic and political resources. However, despite this refreshing approach, many studies on Islamic populism still concentrate on the state (instead of capital) and the urban areas in explaining the development of Islamic populism. This article, therefore, offers a different approach to analyzing Islamic populism through the understanding of capitalism as a social relation and shifts to the countryside as its empirical basis by focusing on the case study of Bulak village in West Java. By combining insights from the literature on agrarian change and populism as a political strategy and adopting qualitative methods namely in-depth interviews (including oral history) and field observation, this article found that contemporary Islamic populism in Indonesia is a result of the specific development of capitalist relations in the context of rural agrarian change. In addition, it also found that Islamic populism is not a phenomenon confined to the urban areas, since it also spreads to the countryside. Moreover, Islamic populism in the countryside has distinctiveness, related to context, social background, and the ways it is mobilized.

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“…At the outset, it should be noted that religion and law have long played an important role in Indonesia (Crouch, 2011; Lindsey and Pausacker, 2016; Buehler and Muhtada, 2016; Bazzi et al , 2020). Long before this country’s birth on August 17, 1945, religion has been the riskiest politico-legal business (Sirozi, 2004; Susanto, 2019).…”

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Regulating religion in a time of COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: context, dynamics, and implication

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2021

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PurposeThis study aims to perform a systematic review of the dialectics and telematics strategy for regulating religion during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also analyzes some important issues related to religions, state, and society.Design/methodology/approachA critical literature review was performed to complete this study, using media, institutional, national, and international reports, as well as recent and previous studies during the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsReligion was one of the social entities that had a crucial effect on the COVID-19 pandemic. The new system in the form of social distancing affects its performance. Furthermore, the response of religion in Indonesia is unique when its status is considered as the largest Islamic country in the world. Therefore, this study attempts to analyze and demonstrate the dynamics of relationships between actors, religion, and state in the process and strategy of religious regulation.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was carried out using a single methodological approach.Practical implicationsThis study provides input to both religion and the state (government) in building a synergy of constructive responses to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Social implicationsIt provides input to society in understanding the critical intersection between religion, state, and society.Originality/valueThis may be the first academic study that analyzes the problems of the process of regulating religion in the context of COVID-19.

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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Stop Suffering! Economic Downturns and Pentecostal Upsurge

Stop Suffering! Economic Downturns and Pentecostal Upsurge

Islamic Populism in Rural Indonesia: An Agrarian Change Approach

Regulating religion in a time of COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: context, dynamics, and implication

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