Varieties of Javanese Religion : An Anthropological Account
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521624444
ISBN-13
9780521624442
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 8th, 1999
Print length
292 Pages
Weight
606 grams
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23.40 x 15.90 x 2.50 cms
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This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's famous study of 1960. Written in a vivid, jargon-free style, it should appeal to students of anthropology, comparative religion, and Islam, and to anyone interested in understanding how an exotic religion is practised.
Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to the problem of cultural difference, and explores the ways in which Javanese villages make sense of their complex and multi-layered culture. Pantheist mystics, supernaturalists, orthodox Muslims and Hindu converts at once construct contrasting faiths and create a common ground through syncretist ritual. Vividly evoking the religious life of Javanese villagers, its controversies and reconciliations, its humour and irony, its philosophical seriousness, and its formal beauty, Dr Beatty probes beyond the finished surfaces of ritual and cosmology to show the debate and compromise inherent in practical religion. This is the most comprehensive study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's classic study of 1960.
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