Java, Indonesia and Islam

Java, Indonesia and Islam
Title Java, Indonesia and Islam PDF eBook
Author Mark Woodward
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 284
Release 2010-10-28
Genre Religion
ISBN 9400700563

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Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts. With a number of entirely new essays as well as significantly revised versions of essays this book is a valuable contribution to the academic community by an eminent anthropologist and key authority on Islamic religion and culture in Java.

Law and Religion in Indonesia

Law and Religion in Indonesia
Title Law and Religion in Indonesia PDF eBook
Author Melissa Crouch
Publisher Routledge
Pages 282
Release 2013-11-12
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1134508360

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Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It considers how the interaction between state and religion has influenced relations between religious communities in the transition to democracy. The book presents original case studies based on empirical field research of court disputes in West Java, a majority-Muslim province with a history of radical Islam. These include criminal court cases, as well as cases of judicial review, relating to disputes concerning religious education, permits for religious buildings and the crime of blasphemy. The book argues that the democratic law reform process has been influenced by radical Islamists because of the politicization of religion under democracy and the persistence of fears of Christianization. It finds that disputes have been localized through the decentralization of power and exacerbated by the central government’s ambivalent attitude towards radical Islamists who disregard the rule of law. Examining the challenge facing governments to accommodate minorities and manage religious pluralism, the book furthers understanding of state-religion relations in the Muslim world. This accessible and engaging book is of interest to students and scholars of law and society in Southeast Asia, was well as Islam and the state, and the legal regulation of religious diversity.

Islam in Java

Islam in Java
Title Islam in Java PDF eBook
Author Mark R. Woodward
Publisher
Pages 336
Release 1989
Genre History
ISBN

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Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java

Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java
Title Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java PDF eBook
Author Patrick Guinness
Publisher NUS Press
Pages 296
Release 2009
Genre Community life
ISBN 9789971694708

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Bandit Saints of Java

Bandit Saints of Java
Title Bandit Saints of Java PDF eBook
Author George Quinn
Publisher Monsoon Books
Pages 357
Release 2019-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1912049457

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Java’s pilgrimage culture is a dense, batik-like pattern of contradictions: seriousness collides with laughter; curiosity with bewilderment; piety with scepticism; intense spirituality with, in some places, the joy of shopping. The pilgrimage culture on the island of Java in Indonesia – the world’s largest Muslim country – is a rebuke to the conservative orthodoxy that has been gaining ground in Indonesia’s religious landscape since the 1980s. In the rhetoric of this orthodoxy the “real” Islam is pure and exclusive. Piety comes from obedience to religious authority and its rules. Local pilgrimage is anything but pure and exclusive or rigidly authoritarian. It is powerfully Islamic but it fuses Islam with local history, the ancient power of place and a pastiche of devotional practices with roots deep in the pre-Islamic past. Quietly but tenaciously – just outside the great echo chamber of public space – it is growing as fast as the higher profile neo-orthodoxy. Bandit Saints of Java delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the weird world of local pilgrimage, where Middle Eastern Islam wrestles with the ancient power of Javanese civilisation. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today – largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists – by many of Java’s 130 million people.

Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java

Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java
Title Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java PDF eBook
Author M. C. Ricklefs
Publisher
Pages 604
Release 2012-09-30
Genre History
ISBN

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"First published by NUS Press, National University of Singapore."

A Peaceful Jihad

A Peaceful Jihad
Title A Peaceful Jihad PDF eBook
Author R. Lukens-Bull
Publisher Springer
Pages 166
Release 2005-05-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1403980292

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Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. The pesantren community, so-called because it is centered around an educational institution called the pesantren, uses education as a central arena for dealing with globalization and the construction and maintenance of an Indonesian Islamic identity. However, the community's efforts to wrestle with these issues extend beyond education into the public sphere in general and specifically in the area of leadership and politics. The case material is used to understand Muslim strategies and responses to civilizational contact and conflict. Scholars, educated readers, and advanced undergraduates interested in Islam, religious education, the construction of religious identity in the context of national politics and globalization will find this work useful.