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

by M.C. Ricklefs

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831527
• ISBN13: 9780824831523
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"