Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam

by Robert W. Hefner

Book Overview

An illuminating account of cultural resilience in Java

Five centuries after the fall of its last Hindu Buddhist kingdom, Java retains only one small population that preserves a non-Islamic priestly tradition descended from early Hindu clergy. Known as the Tengger, these mountain Javanese lack the courts, castes, and religious scholars that transmit Hindu tradition in nearby Bali, the only other area in Indonesia to have kept a Hindu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028567
• ISBN13: 9780691028569
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"