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... when, as Mr. Castles attempts to do, it focuses on the economic, political, and religious aspects of the santri (devout Muslim) traders who run the industry. Readers who expect to find a comprehensive case study of both the Kudus lpete\ industry and its santri entrepreneurs, however...

... of reference for Geertz's discussion, foreshadowed in some of his earlier work, is here fully and graphically elaborated in the three parts of the book, devoted respectively to the Abangan, Santri, and Prijaji "variants" of Javanese culture. While the typology is not altogether new, it has never before been...

..., is popular among the Javanese. A study of the industry is valuable in itself, but becomes even more significant when, as Mr. Castles attempts to do, it focuses on the economic, political, and religious aspects of the santri (devout Muslim) traders who run the industry. Readers who expect to find...

... into devout Muslims or santri and syncretic Muslim-Hindu-Javanese abangan. It is sometimes said that the Madiun Affair was the first important instance of santri-abangan violence, a precursor of the 1965-66 mass killings of communist abangan by anticommunist santri. There is a view on the left, however...

... of Javanese Islam and correlated each with a particular social class. Abangan , or Javanist Muslim, tradition was described as a syncretic blend of animist, Hindu-Buddhist, and Islamic elements that was predominant among the mass of rural Javanese. Santri tradition was identified as a more orthodox variant...

... Changes in Jogjakarta , ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1962 ). 10 On the concepts of santri and abangan see Geertz Clifford , The Religion of Java , ( Glencoe : The Free Press , 1960 ) , and also his The Social History of an Indonesian Town , (Cambridge: The M. I. T...

... extreme, many members of the small Christian minority2 and non-santri Muslims3 have seen the organization as the opening wedge in a new attempt to turn Indonesia into an Islamic state (Magnis-Suseno 1995; Soekarnoputri 1995). For several years the Catholic intellectuals' organization refused to join...

... may imply changes in the larger political system; nor how the changing relations between Soeharto, the bureaucracy, and the military may have reshaped the uses and future of Golkar. Instead, Suryadinata redeploys an old dichotomy abangan versus santri in order to locate Golkar on the abangan side...

... published in English. Dhofier penned this book before the Geertzian trichotomy (priyayi-abangan-santri) of Javanese religion and society had come under serious attack. He counters Geertz's assertion that the Islam of the pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) and the village practice (abangari) which takes...

... and indigenous authors, but a critical reading of these sources would be helpful especially when he addresses an academic audience. McAmis uncritically adopts Clifford Geertz's concepts of santri and abangan without referring to Geertz's Western and local critics. The reality is more complex than this dichotomy...

... behavior of Javanese Muslims is their religious attachment to either santri (orthodox Muslim) or abangan (nominal Muslim) beliefs. He proposes to test other hypotheses; for example, that materially based, patrimonial links, as suggested by Karl Jackson, explain voting behavior, and that economic-class...

... : University of Indonesia Press . Soebardi S. 1971 . “ Santri Religious Elements as Reflected in the Book of Tjentini .” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkkunde 127 ( 3 ): 331 –49. Soedjatmoko . 1965 . “Cultural Motivations to Progress: The ‘Exterior’ and ‘Interior’ Views.” In Religion...

... no match for the Republican troops sent against them. The Madiun Affair was thus a reaction rather than an action, "a revolt rather than a coup" (p. 91), unplanned and out of control from the beginning. On the santri-abangan issue, Swift promises the reader that though communalism will not be apparent...

... of membership. Second, descriptions of events are at times of questionable validity; at other times they are needlessly tentative. As an example of the former, King states that during the Revolutionary period (1945 49) "The santri-abangan cleavage . . . became less visible" (p. 104) and this at the time...

... Geertz and hypothesizes that the principal independent reason for the voting behavior of Javanese Muslims is their religious attachment to either santri (orthodox Muslim) or abangan (nominal Muslim) beliefs. He proposes to test other hypotheses; for example, that materially based, patrimonial links...

... to the stern and pious Moslem santri as the future agents of economic develop- ment; in Wertheim's view (p. 162), "abangan collectivism, combined with the administrative qualities fostered among a modernized priyayi class, might well provide a basis for the creation of a bureaucratic apparatus and of modern...

...) but also bureaucratic performance. This thesis provides a basis for disputing what Geertz has implied in Peddlers and Princes, namely, that in Java one should look to the stern and pious Moslem santri as the future agents of economic develop- ment; in Wertheim's view (p. 162), "abangan collectivism...

... variations among the Javanese Muslims made popular by the trichotomy of Geertz (i.e., abangan, santri, and priyayi) are by no means the results of incomplete Islamization or of class or regional differentiations. They are manifestations of pervasive contrast and conflict between "normative piety" (Woodward's...

... Indonesia: Kawula-Gusti . Rotterdam : Comparative Asian Studies Program, Erasmus University . Sitompul Einar. 1989 . NU dan Panca Sila . Jakarta : Sinar Harapan . Sjadzali Munawir. 1990 . “Jihad Melawan Nafsu.” Tempo , February 17, 1990, p. 103. Soebardi . 1971 . “Santri...

... University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph series, 1999. xxxi, 254 pp. $19-95 (paper). Finally! One of the most important doctoral dissertations on Indonesia has, after years, been published in English. Dhofier penned this book before the Geertzian trichotomy (priyayi-abangan-santri...