Java, Indonesia and Islam

• Main Author: Woodward, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Muslims in Global Societies Series ; 3
• Subjects: Religion.; Anthropology.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.

Mark R. Woodward's Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important works on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodward’s th...

Table of Contents:

• Religion, Culture and Nationality
• The Javanese Dukun: Healing and Moral Authority
• The Slametan: Textual Knowledge and Ritual Performance in Yogyakarta
• Order and Meaning in the Yogyakarta Kraton
• The Garebeg Malud: Veneration of the Prophet as Imperial Ritual
• The Fast of Ramadan in Yogyakarta
• The Kraton Revolution: Religion, Culture, Regime Change and Democracy in Yogyakarta.