Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia by George Quinn

Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia

George Quinn

331 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history religion reflective medium-paced
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Java’s pilgrimage culture is a dense, batik-like pattern of contradictions: seriousness collides with laughter; curiosity with bewilderment; piety with scepticism; intense spirituality with, in some places, the joy of shopping. The pilgrimage cult...

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