Abstract
This article discusses the emergence of religious neoliberal environmentalism in Indonesia, where my interlocutors negotiate religious and economic interests in their everyday environmental actions. Drawing on ethnographic work conducted mainly in the Sunan Drajat pesantren (religious educational institution) in Lamongan Regency, Indonesia, I look at how these environmental actions are produced and maintained through religious neoliberal environmentality. These actions are driven by both religious environmental ethics and neoliberal calculative reasoning. This article argues that religious neoliberal environmentalism produces multiple subjectivities that complicate contemporary socio-environmental actions. These intricacies, in turn, have become the main feature of the contemporary socio-environmental practices in Indonesia. In this article, I suggest that the concept of religious neoliberal environmentalism highlights the innovative role that religion, economics, and ecology play in creating new socio-environmental practices.