Modern Bodies, Modem Souls: Religion, Medicine, and the Public Imagination in Late Colonial Indonesia
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[Thesis]
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Kevin E. Ko
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Kiernan, Benedict F.
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Yale University
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2016
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331
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-10932-0
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Ph.D.
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Yale University
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2016
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As recent scholarship has demonstrated, the `secular' and the `religious' are not fixed essential categories but rather interdependent historical constructions embedded within various projects of modernity. Following this insight, this dissertation explores the ways in which modern medicine and public health contributed to new forms of secular and religious life and to new geographies of the public and the private among Muslims and Christians in modern Indonesia. It pursues this topic in concrete historical fashion through a study of late colonial Christian and Islamic clinics and hospitals as settings within which the boundaries between the religious and the secular, the sacred and the mundane, the private and the public were inscribed upon the body and upon physical space. It offers at once a comparative cultural history of health, religion, and the body among Muslims and Christians in a non-Western colonial society and a social history of their mutual interactions in the field of medicine and public health. As this dissertation will show, health and medicine played key yet overlooked roles as spaces within which modern Muslims and Christians fashioned novel forms of common life, both in collaboration and contestation with one another.