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Durga's Mosque - Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam (Hardcover)
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Durga's Mosque - Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam (Hardcover)
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"For two decades now, Stephen C. Headley has been one of the most
original and systematic ethnographers of Javanese religion and
cultural history. No one in contemporary Javanese ethnography has
combed through the annals of nineteenth and twentieth century
scholarship with as careful an eye for the variety of Javanese
traditions. None combines this historical ethnography with as
careful and unusual body of contemporary ethnography. Headley's new
book brings these long-developed skills to bear on contemporary
religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his
analysis of the Durga ritual complex, Headley sheds light on one of
the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of
deepening Islamization. Headley's analysis of this ritual complex,
and its implications for our understanding of popular Javanese
religion, deserves to be read by all serious students of Java, as
well as anyone interested in religion in Indonesia. However,
Headley moves well beyond this unusual ritual complex, to take us
through the twists and turns of religious culture and politics in
what is one of the richest but also most troubled of cultural
regions in Java. The result is a rich, multi-layered, and
fascinating study, one that changes forever our understanding of
Javanese tradition in a Java becoming Islamic." Robert Hefner,
Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University.
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