Durga's Mosque : : Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam / / Stephen Headley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Headley, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (626 p.)

"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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Javanese Islam -- PART I: THE SOCIOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF RELIGION IN CENTRAL JAVA -- 1. Of Palaces and Placentas: The Praxis of Javanese Kindred -- 2. The Village “Kingdom”: The Bed of Sri and the Realm of Sadana -- 3. Village Goddesses, Their Hierarchy and Clientele -- 4. Deterritorialization: The End of Peasant Livelihood -- PART II: RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL RELIGIOUS HISTORY -- 5. Village Muslim Lineages: Local Genealogies in the 197 Forest “Guardian of Death” -- 6. Village Maps for Royal Lineages: Paku Buwana VI in Durga’s Forest -- PART III: INVOKING THE COSMOS, MAGNIFYING ALLAH: STRUCTURING A LANDSCAPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- 7. The Khandava Forest in India and Its Javanese Demon Queen -- 8. The Spearing of Durga’s Buffalo -- 9. Invoking the Goddess Durga; Worshipping Allah -- 10. The Javanization of Islamic Prayer; The Islamization of Javanese Prayer -- 11. Javanese Cosmologies and Muslim Cosmographies: An Encompassing Knowledge? -- PART IV: COSMOLOGY, CONVERSION AND COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL JAVANESE ISLAM TODAY -- 12. Jihad in Java: An Islamic Appropriation of Individualism -- 13. Of Sacred Wells and Shopping Malls: Glimpses of the Reconstruction of Social Confidence in Solo after Soeharto -- 14. The Social Reconstruction of Confidence: Community and Islam in Surakarta Today -- 15. Enclosing Cosmologies and Elective Citizenship -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR