Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java : A Political, Social, Cultural and Religious History, c. 1930 to the Present, by M. C. Ricklefs

Authors : Carool KERSTEN

Pages : 263-267

Doi:10.12730/13091719.2015.62.135

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Publication Date : 2016-06-17

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :First paragraph: This hefty tome of more than five hundred pages is the third and longest volume in Merle Ricklefs’s trilogy on the history of the Islamization of Java – the most populous island of the world’s largest Muslim nation state: Indonesia. It completes a narrative which started with Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamisation from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2006);, followed by Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(c. 1830-1930); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2007);. It also continues an argument for understanding the Islamization of Java as an open-ended and ongoing process of religious transformation.
Keywords : Islamisation, Political, Social, Cultural, Religious, History

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