Durga's Mosque: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam

Hardcover, xx + 604 pages, b&w images in text, NOT ex-library. Weight 1030g. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, securely bound. Boards show small cosmetic edge-nicks (spine ends & upper edge of the rear panel), short corner creases; an "outstanding academic title choice" sticker on the front panel. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Javanese Islam [Javanese Islam in Monsoon Southeast Asia; Sociology of a 'Pluralistic' Cosmos; Incorporation of Islam: The Umat a Transposable Landscape of Belief; A Javanese Individualism; Morphologies of the Javanese Muslim Community; Structure of this Study]; Part I: The Sociology and Practice of Religion in Central Java 1. Of Palaces and Placentas: The Praxis of Javanese Kindred [Economic Change and Religious Identity; Friends and Enemies: A Person's Four 'Foetus Siblings'; Ancestors and Siblings: Two Foci of Kindred in Insular Southeast Asian Societies; Javanese Kinship in its Austronesian Context; Kinship and Ritual in Peasant Houses and Palaces; Idiom of Siblingship: 'House Societies' and Worship Communities] 2. Village Kingdom: The Bed of Sri and the Realm of Sadana [Birth of a Javanese; Building a House for a Family; Javanese House; Childbirth and the Rice Harvest in the Myth of Sri: The First Social Level; Ritual Domestication of Hierarchy] 3. Village Goddesses, Their Hierarchy and Clientele [Sri in Javanese Kingship; Addressing Sri: Access and Hierarchy; Assessing Sri; Goddesses and the Circulation of Values: Past and Present] 4. Deterritorialization: The End of Peasant Livelihood [Historical Overview; Mangkunagaran Village Ordinance of 3 March 1855; Pre-colonial Bondage; Land Tenure after the Cultivation System (1830?70); Javanese Villages after Krismon (1997+)]; Part II: Reconstruction of Local Religious History 5. Village Muslim Lineages: Local Genealogies in the Forest 'Guardian of Death' [Question of the Context: Javanese and Indian Islam; Genealogy of the Noble Ancestors of Kaliasa; Islamization, Koranic Schools, and Javanese Trah; Holy Sites and Their Clientele; 'Worship Communities' and Linages: A Comparative Perspective from Sulawesi to Sumatra, via Java; Appendices: Genealogies Cited] 6. Village Maps for Royal Lineages: Paku Buwana VI in Durga's Forest [For the Blessing of the Goddess; Needs of a Hero; Rewriting History; Talking up Political History; Meeting Durga; Appendix: Recent Chronology of Texts on Paku Buwana VI]; Part III: Invoking the Cosmos, Magnifying Allah: Structuring a Landscape in the 17th to 19th Centuries 7. Khandava Forest in India and Its Javanese Demon Queen [Burning of the Khandava Forest; Durga's Veneration in Java: From Indian Myths to Javanese Iconography; Indian and Javanese Forests from the Mahabharata; Burning of the Forest and the Goddess' Victory over the Demon Buffalo; Sketch of the Iconography of Durga's Victory in India and Java] 8. Spearing of Durga's Buffalo [Description of the Buffalo Sacrifice in the Maésa Lawung; Responsibilities of the Suranata: Sacrifice via Cosmogony; Krendawahana as Seen by the Mangkunagaran; Abandoning of Offerings (Labuhan) in Durga's Forest; Mankunagaran Forest Tertre: Royal Ritual and Village Lore; Levels and Landscapes in the Durga Cults] 9. Invoking the Goddess Durga; Worshipping Allah 10. Javanization of Islamic Prayer; Islamization of Javanese Prayer 11. Javanese Cosmologies and Muslim Cosmographies: 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. Social Reconstruction of Confidence: Community and Islam in Surakarta Today 15. Enclosing Cosmologies and Elective Citizenship; Bibliography; Index.…