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

Stephen C. Headley

ISBN 10: 9812302425 / ISBN 13: 9789812302427

Published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Durga's Mosque: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam
• Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812302425
• ISBN 13: 9789812302427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"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.