Keberhasilan dakwa wali songo antara lain disebabkan kemampuannya untuk memanfaatkan budaya dan tradisi jawa sebagai media dakwah. Disisi lain, masyarakat jawa berusaha mengasimilasikan ajaran islam dengan tradisi dan budayanya. Seperti ajaran wihdatul wujud dalam ajaran tasawuf eksterm diasimilasikan dengan budaya dan tradisi jawa, misalnya dalam cerita serat suluk jiwa maupun serat dewa ruci …
Javanese courtiers no doubt turned to works like Babad Sangkala as simple sources of factual information about the past. It was therefore worth their while to attempt to preserve such historical records accurately. Modern historians are obliged to take such works seriously, as well. Of course all sources - Javanese, European or whetever - must be subjected to rigous historical criticism, includ…
Kematian merupakan paradoks kehidupan di dalam komunitas Jawa. Di satu sisi orang diharapkan pada kebinasaan tubuh, tetapi di sisi lain orang tengah mereproduksi kehidupan melalui peristiwa ini. Gagasan tentang hidup bersama dalam komunitas dijaga dan masa depan umat manusia terus menerus dibayangkan manakala kematian menghampirinya. Tulisan ini berusaha mengeksplorasi makna kematian dengan men…
Javanese has lost its Javanese value, is a phrase often said by parents particularly in East Java, to remind the youngs to keep the Javanese culture in mind, either its normn, conducts or arts. Shadow puppets represents one of Javaness arts which has had an on and off existence because of the incoming modern arts which has tremendous exposure and strong impact, especially on the youngs. The stu…
The contact between universality of Islam and lokality of muslim conditions produces what is called local Islam is very colorful in accordance which its local contexts. So, to view local Islam apart from normattive Islam is a misleading way, because all communities of local Islam interprate and base their believe and practices in certain and respectively unique way on normative Islam, the Qur'a…
The spreading of Islam in Indonesia did not merely come from the centre of Islam, Madinah. it was notified that it came entirely from the stage and special term. On this stage, Islam had been acculturized with the local culture. That the process entering to Indonesia why Islam had been already exist in this country, and eventually spread not in a proper way. Islam had been mixed with the local …
This book is a continuation of the writer's previous work, from cosmogony to exorcism in a Javanese genesis; the spirit seed 2000, in which he discussed how mythological beliefs regarding the origin on the creation of the world played an important role in the social and religious lives of the Javanese. These mythological beliefs contituted te basis of the formation for both social relations wit…
Beragamnya bentuk ritual masyarakat Jawa dalam mengartikulasikan praktik keagamaan telah menarik perhatian para penelitu Barat semisal Clifford Geertz, Max Woodward, Robert W. Hefner dan yang terakhir Andree Mouller.Masing-masing peneliti memberikan analisisnya dengan temuan yang berbeda-beda.