Download e-book for iPad: Challenging Islamic Orthodoxy: Accounts of Lia Eden and by Al Makin

This ebook is the 1st paintings that comprehensively offers the money owed of Lia Eden, a former flower arranger who claims to have bought divine messages from the Archangel Gabriel and based the divine Eden state in her condominium in Jakarta. This booklet areas Lia Eden’s prophetic trajectory within the context of various Indonesian non secular and non secular traditions, through which 1000s of others additionally claimed to were commanded via God to steer humans and to set up spiritual teams. This e-book bargains a clean process in the direction of the wealthy Indonesian non secular and religious traditions with specific awareness to the bills of the emergence of indigenous prophets who based a few well known religions. It offers the background of prophetic culture which continues to be alive in Indonesian society from the colonial to reform interval. It additionally explores the ways that those prophets rebelled opposed to hegemonies: colonial strength some time past and Islamic orthodoxy within the current. The dialogue of this ebook specializes in Lia Eden together with her biography, claims to prophethood and divinity, the advance of her crew Eden nation, her problem to Islamic orthodoxy  lower than the banner of the MUI (Indonesian Ulama Council), her persecution via radical teams, her reports in court docket trials and imprisonment, and public responses to her emergence. The dialogue additionally covers different subject matters at the moment drawing public awareness in Indonesia, comparable to pluralism, non secular freedom, tolerance, discrimination opposed to minorities, and secularisation.