PROBLEMS OF CRISIS AND DECLINE OF LIBERAL ISLAM IN INDONESIAN MUSLIM MODERNISM OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 2010S AND BEGINNING OF THE 2020S
The author analyzes the features of development and the main vectors of transformation of modernist trends in contemporary Indonesian Islam. It is assumed that the liberal trend in the Indonesian Muslim public thought is reduced to debates and reflections on the causes of the crisis and the failure of liberal Islamic project. The author believes that the crisis of liberal Islam in the middle of the 2010s did not lead to its final disappearance in Muslim Ummah in Indonesia. It is shown that liberalism in Islam became a special case of the development of the ideas of Muslim modernism. The article analyzes the problems of the intellectual agenda of Muslim liberals, the peculiarities of their perception of own history and their marginal place in contemporary Indonesian Islam. The author believes that modern Indonesian political Islam in its liberal version, despite the lack of institutionalization and, as a result, formal marginality, is looking for new forms of its own structural self-organization and self-representation in society. Therefore, it is shown that, on the one hand, moderate liberal Islam seeks to use the resources of modernization and is active in the development and use of virtual space. On the other hand, the author believes that thematically Islamic liberalism actually has no chance to transform in an influential force in the modern Ummah, as it is limited by self-reflection about the reasons of its own marginality and its political failure.