Islamisation and its opponents in Java a political, social, cultural and religious history, c. 1930 to the present
The Javanese -- one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world -- were once mostly "nominal Muslims", with pious believers a minority and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam's call for greater piety. Over the tumultuous period analyzed here -- from colonial rule through j...
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NUS Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I TROUBLED PATH TO DEEPER ISLAMISATION, TO C. 1998--ch. 1 Islamisation in Java to c. 1930--3Creating the Mystic Synthesis--Polarising Javanese society--ch. 2 Under colonial rule:Javanese society and Islam in the 1930--Social parameters: The census of 1930--impact of the Great Depression--Javanese life and culture in kraton and countrysid--Islam in Java: Reform, local traditions and mysticism--Abangan and santri--Polarised on the precipice--ch. 3 War and Revolution, 1942--: The hardening of boundaries--Japanese occupation--Revolution--Abangan-santri violence-- ch. 4 first freedom experiment: Aliran politics and Communist opposition to Islamisation, 1950--santri-abangan balance--Aliran in politics and culture, and the elections of 1955-7--violent conflicts of 1963-6--ch. 5 totalitarian experiment (I): Kebatinan, Christian and government competition and the end of aliran politics 1966-80s
- Soeharto's spirituality--Abangan folk arts and cults in the early New Order-- Kebatian under the early New Order--Christianisation and other conversions away from Islam--Government competition--death of aliran politics and Islamisation from below--Modernists' laments at national level--Grass-roots purification movements in Surakarta in the 1970s--Modernist-led Islamisation--Deepening Islamisation by the early 1980s--Early New Order ironies-- New Order as an historicist state--ch. 6 totalitarian experiment (II): Grass-roots Islamisation and advancing Islamism, c. 1980s-98--changing, Islamising society--Regime demands for ideological conformity--Reconciliation between NU and the New Order regime--arts under the later New Order Revivalism, Islamism and the later Soeharto region--Java Islamised?--pt. II COMING TO FRUITION, c. 1998 TO THE PRESENT-- ch. 7 political and social settings--Introduction-- political setting: The second freedom experiment--santri-abangan balance--ch. 8 Islamising society-- Politics and government--MUI and the state--Women--Popular culture--Business--Superstitions and s̀€cience'--role of educational institutions
- ch. 9 Efforts to impose conformity of Islamic belief
- ch. 10 Large-scale Modernist and Traditionalist movements on the defensive 341--ch. 11 Older cultural styles on the defensive 371--Defending abangan, kebatinan and related ideas and practices 371--Older arts and performance styles in a more Islamic society 392-- ch. 12 protagonists and new totalitarians: Smaller Islamist and Dakwahist movements 408-- ch. 13 remaining opposition: Seeking a neutral public space 446--pt. III SIGNIFICANCE-- ch. 14 Islamisation of the Javanese in three contexts 461--In the history of religion 462-- In the contemporary Islamic world 467--In the search for the better life: Freedom vs justice 479--Concluding observations 495--Appendix Research methodology and case studies 500-- Glossary 508--Key analytical terms 514--Acknowledgments