Upgraded piety and pleasure: The new middle class and Islam in Indonesian popular culture

Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 60-82

  Heryanto, Ariel ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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