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Durga's Mosque

Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam

By: Stephen Headley

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Durga's Mosque

Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam

By: Stephen Headley

Stephen Headley's new book explores contemporary religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his analysis of the Durga ritual complex, the author sheds light on one of the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of deepening Islamisation.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9812302425

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9789812302427

From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

The Spilt Seed

By: Stephen C. Headley

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From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

The Spilt Seed

By: Stephen C. Headley

In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was immediately the subject of debate among students of Javanese culture. Stephen C. Headley translates and studies ritual and myth in their variant forms. He expands illuminatingly upon Rasser's general proposition, that the movement from cosmogony to exorcism founds fundamental social forms within which values circulate in Javanese society. Richly detailed descriptions confirm the permanence of these networks of circulating values in modern-day Java, and their persistence in the face of contemporary individualism.

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270

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OUP Oxford

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0191583812

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9780191583810

Perfect Order

Recognizing Complexity in Bali

By: J. Stephen Lansing

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Recognizing Complexity in Bali

By: J. Stephen Lansing

Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process? Perfect Order--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archaeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. Stephen Lansing shows that the temple networks are fragile, vulnerable to the cross-currents produced by competition among male descent groups. But the feminine rites of water temples mirror the farmers' awareness that when they act in unison, small miracles of order occur regularly, as the jewel-like perfection of the rice terraces produces general prosperity. Much of this is barely visible from within the horizons of Western social theory. The fruit of a decade of multidisciplinary research, this absorbing book shows that even as researchers probe the foundations of cooperation in the water temple networks, the very existence of the traditional farming techniques they represent is threatened by large-scale development projects.

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240

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Princeton University Press

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1400845866

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9781400845866

Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean

Inside and Outside the Mosque

By: Stephen Headley,David Parkin

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Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean

Inside and Outside the Mosque

By: Stephen Headley,David Parkin

In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to incorporate certain local religious traditions and practices. This book shares that combination of universality and local particularity, exploring this paradox and the contradictory tendencies contained in it.

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Routledge

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1317793455

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Durga's Mosque

By: Stephen C Headley

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Durga's Mosque

By: Stephen C Headley

For two decades now, Stephen C. Headley has been one of the most original and systematic ethnographers of Javanese religion and cultural history. No one in contemporary Javanese ethnography has combed through the annals of nineteenth and twentieth century scholarship with as careful an eye for the variety of Javanese traditions. None combines this historical ethnography with as careful and unusual body of contemporary ethnography. Headley's new book brings these long-developed skills to bear on contemporary religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his analysis of the Durga ritual complex, Headley sheds light on one of the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of deepening Islamization. Headley's analysis of this ritual complex, and its implications for our understanding of popular Javanese religion, deserves to be read by all serious students of Java, as well as anyone interested in religion in Indonesia. However, Headley moves well beyond this unusual ritual complex, to take us through the twists and turns of religious culture and politics in what is one of the richest but also most troubled of cultural regions in Java. The result is a rich, multi-layered, and fascinating study, one that changes forever our understanding of Javanese tradition in a Java becoming Islamic.-- Robert Hefner, Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University.

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Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

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9814515329

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9789814515320

Civil Procedure, 4th Edition

By: Stephen C. Yeazell

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Civil Procedure, 4th Edition

By: Stephen C. Yeazell

This edition of Stephen Yeazell's extraordinarily successful casebook, CIVIL PROCEDURE, has been updated to reflect new cases and recent changes To The Federal Rules. The Fourth Edition retains the same easy-to-follow organization, manageable length, tightly edited cases, and accessible format that have made it a favorite among teachers and students. Key features of this edition include: new litigation documents--actual litigation documents include a pleading and a deposition that are the subject of judicial decisions recent rule changes--new textual and case treatment of the new discovery rules and Rule 11 reflect substantial changes new cases in rapidly developing areas, particularly punitive damages and class action expanded coverage of: disposition without trial, including alternate dispute resolution; class actions, including the controversial 'settlement class'; attorney's fees; And The incidence of litigation. The Fourth Edition features a flexible organization that starts with jurisdiction or pleadings - whichever you prefer. This edition is even more teachable with these organizational changes: separate chapters on personal jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction two chapters on trial--one on selecting the trier of fact And The other on trial proper. A 1997 Statutory Supplement and excellent Teacher's Manual round out this superb package.

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Aspen Publishers

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0735506248

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9780735506244

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Durga's Mosque

Durga's Mosque

From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

Perfect Order

Perfect Order

Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean

Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean

Durga's Mosque

Durga's Mosque

Civil Procedure, 4th Edition

Civil Procedure, 4th Edition

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