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Paperback Polarizing Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (C. 1830-1930) Book

ISBN: 0824831527

ISBN13: 9780824831523

Polarizing Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (C. 1830-1930)

"Ricklefs grounds his study of Javanese religious change in the material reality of the island. This is very fine social history." --James Rush, Arizona State University

By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the "mystic synthesis." This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity...

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