The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree : : A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, c.1910s-2010 (Second Enlarged Edition) / / Mitsuo Nakamura.

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• VerfasserIn: Nakamura, Mitsuo,
• MitwirkendeR: Ali, H.A. Mukti,; Atika, Nur,; Nakamura, Mitsuo,; Ricklefs, Merle C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 p.)

Part One of this book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970–72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity. The author was one of the first scholars who had noted that there was continuing Islamization in Indonesia and predicted its progress in the future. Part Two is based on the author's three decades of follow-up visits to the Kotagede from the 1970s to 2010. During this period, the Muhammadiyah movement made enormous advancements, enough to to make the town known as a "Muhammadiyah town". On the national level, the Muhammadiyah has grown to be the second largest Islamic civil society organization (after the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama) in Indonesia, with millions of members and supporters. Yet, the wider environment for it has been altered greatly by urbanization, diversification and globalization. It is also facing unprecedented challenges arising from calls for democratization in the post-Soeharto era. The longitudinal study in this volume depicts the most recent dynamics of the Muhammadiyah movement in a local as well as transhitoric context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Notes -- Part I: Development of the Muhammadiyah in Kotagede, c.1910S–1972 -- 1. Introduction: The Islamization of Java -- 2. Kotagede Under the Banyan Tree: Traditional Society and Religion -- 3. The Beginning of the Muhammadiyah: Court Religious Officials and the Urban Middle Class -- 4. The Development of the Muhammadiyah: Religion and Social Action -- 5. The Sociology of Ummat Islam: Structure and Anti-Structure -- 6. The Ideology of the Muhammadiyah: Tradition and Transformation -- 7. Conclusion: Re-Islamization of Java -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART I -- PART II: KOTAGEDE REVISITED, 1972–2010 -- Coming Home -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- 8. Social Changes in Kotagede, 1972–2010 -- 9. The Achievements of the Muhammadiyah -- 10. Internal Dynamics of the Muhammadiyah Movement -- 11. Challenges Facing the Muhammadiyah -- 12. Festival Kotagede: Conflict and Integration -- 13. The May 2006 Earthquake and Reconstruction of Kotagede -- 14. Concluding Remarks: Future of the Muhammadiyah -- Postscript to Part II -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- APPENDICES -- Index -- About the Author