The Murmur

Contributors
Greg Barton is a lecturer in Religious and Asian Studies at
Deakin University. I-Iis 1995 PhD dissertation, entitled 'The
Emergence of Neo-Modernism; a Progressive Liberal Movement
of Islamic Thought in Indonesia: A Testual Study Examining the
Writings of Nurcholish Madjid, qjohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahib
and Abdurrahman Wahid, 1968-1980', will be published in
Indonesian by Yayasan Paratnadina, Jakarta, in 1996.

 Greg Fealy is currently completing a doctoral dissertation
on the political history of Nahdlatul Ulama, 1952-1968, in the
History Department, Monash University. His publications
include The Relecr.re c?flndonesicr :s Political Prisoners Domestic
Versus Foreign Policy, lY75-197Y (Centre of Southeast Asian
Studies, Monash University, Clayton, 19()5).

 Andree Feillard lived in Indonesia for seventeen years,
during which time she worked as a journalist for Agence France
Presse and Asiaweek. Upon returning to France, she undertook
post-graduate studies at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences
Sociales, graduating in 1993. Her dissertation examined the
relationship between Nahdlatul Ulama and the state, 1965-1993.
She is the author of Islum ct arnlc'e dans I'/ndonc'sie
contemporaine (Islam and the army in contemporary
Indonesia), (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1995), and is currently a
researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) in Paris

  Mitsuo Nakamura is Professor of Anthropology at Chiba
University, Japan. He has written extensively on Indonesian
Islam, including The Cirsccnt Over the Banyan Tree. A Sfudy of
the Muhammcmiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town
(Gadjah Mada University Press. Yogyakarta, 1983), based on his
Cornell PhD thesis.

  Douglas E. Ramage is a reseaaarch fellow at the East-West
Center, Hawaii. A former Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, he
previously held appointments at the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies in Singapore and the University of Hawaii. He is the
author of Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the
Ideology of Tolerance (Routledge, London, 1995).

  Martin van Bruinessen is a soicial anthropologist, who
spent almost a decade in Indonesia teaching and doint research
on various aspects of Indonesian Islam. His publication include
NU, Tradisi, Relasi-Relasi Kuasa, dan Pencarian Wacana Baru (NU,
Tradition, Relations with Authority, and the Search for a
New Discourse), (LKis, Yogyakarta, 1994). He is presently a
lecturer in Turkish and Kurdish studies at Utrecht University,
The Netherlands.