Biography Narrative

Dr. Amanah Nurish is an Indonesian ethnographer and anthropologist. She is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Dept. of Anthropology – Stanford University. She teaches at the School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia. Before working in academic field, she worked as a regional consultant in the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) for the program of Violent Extremism and Corruption in the Pacific Asia region. She also has working experiences with USAID Washington D.C as regional coordinator for the project of Climate Change and Conflict in the East Indonesian Archipelago. Her field is religious anthropology, with research interest on minority religions, gender, environment, and populism in Southeast Asia. For the past ten years, she has been working on the Baha’i communities in Southeast Asia that had a significant impact on public discourse regarding religious minorities’ rights. She wrote books, monographs, journals and popular articles: Religion of Java: a Half Century of Clifford Geertz (2019), Shi’te and The Birth of Baha’i Faith in Iran (2016), Halal Labeling: The Next Gold Mine (2014), Welcoming Baha’i: New Official Religion In Indonesia (2014), Fetishism And Imagined Gods (2019), Corona and the New Terrorist Trap (2020), Religious Populism in Indonesian Democracy in the Internet Era (2021), Resilience of The Baha’is Community In Facing Covid-19 (2021), Santri-Abangan After A Half Century of Clifford Geertz (2021), When Abangan Embraces Sufism: Religious Phenomenology to Counter Radicalism in Indonesia (2021), Muslim-Christian Conflict and the Rise of Laskar Jihad: Tracing Islamophobia in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia (2022), etc.

Interreligious Activities and Initiatives

Opportunity and Challenge of IRD to Face Environmental Impact on Climate Change In Indonesian Indigenous Communities