Hindu Javanese
by Robert W. Hefner
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Paperback - 303 pages
(January 24, 1990)
ISBN: 0691028567
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Book Description
"The most important study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's
Religion of Java (1960). An ethnographically rich and historically detailed
portrait of the last Hindu enclave in Muslim Java, Hefner's work is also a
compelling account of the symbolic processes involved in religious
conversion. . . . This is a brilliant study which is certain to appeal to
readers concerned with post-structuralist theory as well as specialists in
Asian Studies, Hinduism, and Islam." --Choice "Elegantly written,
convincingly argued, and painstakingly researched, this study of a Javanese
mountain people is the most paradigmatic work in the anthropology of
religion to appear since Nuer Religion." --E. Valentine Daniel, Religious
Studies Review "This book is an exemplary model of sophisticated use of
sociological and semiotic theory in the analysis of complex historical and
ethnographic materials. It will interest not only anthropologists and
Indonesianists, but also historians, linguists, and students of the history
of religion and mythology. The general reader would also enjoy the work,
for it is gracefully and vividly written." --Hildred Geertz, Princeton
University "[T]he description of ritual, the priestly role, and prayer in
the contemporary setting is careful, subtle and original. The challenges
from and reactions to Islam are well delineated." --R. H. Barnes, Times
Literary Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
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