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Zustand: as new. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Paperback. xvii, 297 pp. illustrations, maps ; 23 cm - By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity, but it was a particular kind of Islam described by the author as a 'mystic synthesis.' This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity as Muslims, they carried out the basic ritual obligations of the faith, but they also accepted the reality of local spiritual forces." "In the course of the nineteenth century, colonial rule, population pressure and Islamic reform all acted to undermine this 'mystic synthesis'. Pious Muslims became divided amongst adherents of that synthesis, reformers who demanded a more orthoprax way of life, reforming Sufis and those who believed in messianic ideas. A new category of Javanese emerged, people who resisted Islamic reform and began to attenuate their Islamic identity. This group became known as abangan, nominal Muslims, and they constituted a majority of the population. For the first time a minority of Javanese converted to Christianity. The priyayi elite, Java's aristocracy, meanwhile embraced the forms of modernity represented by their European rulers and the wider advances of modern scientific learning." "In the early twentieth century these categories became politicized in the context of Indonesia's nascent of anti-colonial movements. Thus were born contending political identities that lay behind much of the conflict and bloodshed of twentieth-century Indonesia Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780824831523. Keywords : INDONESIA, Indonesia.…

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Zustand: as new. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Hardcover dustjacket. xxvi, 391 pp. Southeast Asia Publication Series. - In this work Professor M. C. Ricklefs explores the nexus between religious belief and mundane behaviour in mid-eighteenth century Java - exploding widely accepted stereotypes about the role of Islam in Javanese civilisation as he does so. This study rests upon a vast range of Javanese and Dutch sources. Readers will gain a unique sense of how members of the Javanese elite thought, prayed and performed at this time, when pre-colonial Javanese court culture was at its height. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780824820527. Keywords : INDONESIA, Indonesia.…