Durga's Mosque: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam
- ISBN-10
- 9812302425
- ISBN-13
- 9789812302427
- Category
- Durgā (Hindu deity)
- Pages
- 636
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Author
- Stephen Headley
Description
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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