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Bandit Saints of Java

by George Quinn
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Bandit Saints of Java
Bandit Saints of Java

Java's vibrant spiritual defiance against fundamentalism.

If you're intrigued by the intersection of religion, culture, and modern challenges, "Bandit Saints of Java" is an eye-opener. This book dives into the complex, colorful world of Javanese pilgrimage and its resistance to fundamentalist Islam. It offers a unique lens to view Indonesian spirituality, where laughter mingles with prayer, revealing an often unseen side of the world's largest Muslim-majority country. The narrative captures the resilience of local traditions and their role in shaping a more inclusive and diverse understanding of faith amidst growing conservatism.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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by George Quinn
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ISBN: 9781912049448
Authors: George Quinn
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Date of Publication: 2019-08-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Religion, History
Related Topics: History, Asia
Goodreads rating: 4.48
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Description

Java's pilgrimage culture is a dense, batik-like pattern of contradictions: seriousness collides with laughter; curiosity with bewilderment; piety with scepticism; intense spirituality with, in some places, the joy of shopping. The pilgrimage culture on the island of Java in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim country - is a rebuke to the conservative orthodoxy that has been gaining ground in Indonesia's religious landscape since the 1980s. In the rhetoric of this orthodoxy, the "real" Islam is pure and exclusive. Piety comes from obedience to religious authority and its rules. Local pilgrimage is anything but pure and exclusive or rigidly authoritarian. It is powerfully Islamic but it fuses Islam with local history, the ancient power of place, and a pastiche of devotional practices with roots deep in the pre-Islamic past. Quietly but tenaciously - just outside the great echo chamber of public space - it is growing as fast as the higher profile neo-orthodoxy. Bandit Saints of Java delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the weird world of local pilgrimage, where Middle Eastern Islam wrestles with the ancient power of Javanese civilization. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practiced today - largely invisible to journalists, scholars, and tourists - by many of Java's 130 million people.
 

Java's vibrant spiritual defiance against fundamentalism.

If you're intrigued by the intersection of religion, culture, and modern challenges, "Bandit Saints of Java" is an eye-opener. This book dives into the complex, colorful world of Javanese pilgrimage and its resistance to fundamentalist Islam. It offers a unique lens to view Indonesian spirituality, where laughter mingles with prayer, revealing an often unseen side of the world's largest Muslim-majority country. The narrative captures the resilience of local traditions and their role in shaping a more inclusive and diverse understanding of faith amidst growing conservatism.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.