Java, Indonesia and Islam [Paperback]

Mark R. Woodwards Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodwards thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts.With a number of entirely new essays as well as significantly revised versions of essays this book is a valuable contribution to the academic community by an eminent anthropologist and key authority on Islamic religion and culture in Java.Written on the basis of Woodwards thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, Java, Indonesia and Islam presents a collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, and sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts.1. Religion, Culture and Nationality2. The Javanese Dukun: Healing and Moral Authority3. The Slametan: Textual Knowledge and Ritual Performance in Yogyakarta4. Order and Meaning in the Yogyakarta Kraton5. The Garebeg Malud: Veneration of the Prophet as Imperial Ritual6. The Fast of Ramadan in Yogyakarta7. The Kraton Revolution: Religion, Culture, Regime Change and Democracy in Yogyakarta

From the book reviews:

Woodwards Java, Indonesia and Islam offers an invaluable corrective to Orientalist depictions of Javanese Islam. While it will no doubt continue to generate debate among scholars of Indonesian Islam, the volume is a critical resource for those attempting to understand not only Islam in Indonesia but Islam in any local context. (Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Contemporary Islam, Vol. 7, 2013)

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