Islamic spectrum in Java

• Main Author: Daniels, Timothy P., 1960-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
• Series: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
• Subjects: Islam > Social aspects > Indonesia > Java.; Islam and culture > Indonesia > Java.; Islam.; RELIGION > General. > Islam; Java (Indonesia) > Civilization > Islamic influences.; Electronic books.
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This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world's most populous Muslim nation, engaging with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements...

Table of Contents:

• City of culture, tourist objects, and difference as fetish
• Locating "Islam" between thin veneer and normative piety
• Dukun, kyai, and ustadz : healing along the spectrum
• Social drama, dangdut, and popular culture
• Muslim puritans, cultural dakwah, and reformation
• Student theatre, social critique, and equalization
• Maiyah, communitas, and common people.