islam reached Lombok islan at sixteenth century, approximately at 1545. It well known spreader was an expedition from Java led by Sunan prapen son of Sunan giri, one of the famous wali songo [nine religious leaders, the Islam spreader in Java]. Before Islam reached this island, according to some historian, the indigenous Sasak appelation to indigenous of Lombok people had their own traditional …
This paper deals with two practice of popular islam (the rites of passage and the visit to the tomb of the saints) in waru, East Java by the community of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). It is an attemps to understand the genuine meaning of those practices by syudying the factors that may trigger their rise, and also by investigating the conceptual categorization of modernity in relation to religion and i…