Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts.
Religion, Culture and Nationality.- The Javanese Dukun: Healing and Moral Authority.- The Slametan: Textual Knowledge and Ritual Performance in Yogyakarta.- Order and Meaning in the Yogyakarta Kraton.- The Garebeg Malud: Veneration of the Prophet as Imperial Ritual.- The Fast of Ramadan in Yogyakarta.- The Kraton Revolution: Religion, Culture, Regime Change and Democracy in Yogyakarta.
From the book reviews: "Woodward's Java, Indonesia and Islam offers an invaluable corrective to Orientalist depictions of Javanese Islam. While it will no doubt continue to generate debate among scholars of Indonesian Islam, the volume is a critical resource for those attempting to understand not only Islam in Indonesia but Islam in any local context." (Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Contemporary Islam, Vol. 7, 2013)