Book Review: Schäfer, S. (2026). Mobilizing Mainstream Islam. The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective. : Cornell University Press. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8525-2. 249 pages.

Timo Duile

doi:10.14764/10.ASEAS-0144

Book Review: Schäfer, S. (2026). Mobilizing Mainstream Islam. The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective.

Cornell University Press. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8525-2. 249 pages.

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Timo Duile University of Bonn https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-0003

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https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0144

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Author Biography

Timo Duile, University of Bonn

Timo Duile is a researcher and teacher of Indonesian language at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, as well as a fellow at the Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Islamic State University, Jakarta. His current research focuses on atheism, religious pluralism, and the politics of exclusion in Southeast Asia.

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Schäfer, S. (2016). Forming ‘forbidden’ identities online: Atheism in Indonesia. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 9(2), 253-268.

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2026-08-27

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