Entangled Pieties

En-Chieh Chao is Assistant Professor of Sociology at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.

1. Introduction: Pieties in Contact, Everyday Conflict and Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Indonesia.- 2. Generating Religioisities: The entangled history of Islam and Christianity in Java.- 3. Engineering Horizons: Controversies over Landscaping and Belonging in Salatiga.- 4. Regendering Community: Women Reshaping Javanese Rites of Passage in Mixed Communities.- 5. Regendering Ethnicity: Pentecostal Gender Dynamics Reshaping Chinese Imageries.- 6. Performing Pluralism: Islamic Greetings, Christian Halal Food, and Religious Holidays.- 7. Conclusion: Not Just a Story about Tolerance.

"Entangled Pieties revives this essential genre with a sophisticated ethnography of the city of Salatiga, Central Java. It is packed with rich theoretical and empirical insights, attentive to everyday life, and it makes the most of very rich qualitative data. ... A key achievement of Entangled Pieties is its deeply relational analysis." (Rachel Rinaldo, Innovation in the Social Sciences, Vol. 1 (1), 2023)

“Entangled Pieties revives this essential genre with a sophisticated ethnography of the city of Salatiga, Central Java. It is packed with rich theoretical and empirical insights, attentive to everyday life, and it makes the most of very rich qualitative data. … A key achievement of Entangled Pieties is its deeply relational analysis.” (Rachel Rinaldo, Innovation in the Social Sciences, Vol. 1 (1), 2023)