Exploring the distinctive nature and role of local pilgrimage traditions among Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices draws particularly on south central Java, Indonesia. In this area, the hybrid local Muslim pilgrimage culture is shaped by traditional Islam, the Javano-Islamic sultanates, and the Javanese culture with its strong Hindu-Buddhist heritage. This region is also home to a vibrant Catholic community whose identity formation has occurred in a way that involves complex engagements with Islam as well as Javanese culture. In this respect, local pilgrimage tradition presents itself as a rich milieu in which these complex engagements have been taking place between Islam, Catholicism, and Javanese culture. Employing a comparative theological and phenomenological analysis, this book reveals the deeper religio-cultural and theological import of pilgrimage practice in the identity formation and interaction among Muslims and Catholics in south central Java. In a wider context, it also sheds light on the larger dynamics of the complex encounter between Islam, Christianity and local cultures.
Author(s): Albertus Bagus Laksana
Series: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: New York
Cover
Contents
List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Spelling, Transliteration, and Sources
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Pilgrimage, Hybridity, and Identity Making
Part I Javano-Muslim Case
1 Formation of Javano-Islamic Identity: Saints, Shrines, and Sacred History
2 Muslim Self and Hindu-Javanese Other: Spatial, Architectural, and Ritual Symbolisms
3 The Richness of Pilgrimage Experience: Devotion, Memory, and Blessings
Part II Javano-Catholic Case
4 Identity as Memory: Sacred Space and the Formation of Javano-Catholic Identity
5 The Trace of the Other in the Javano-Catholic Identity
6 Immersed in the Web of Blessings and Communion
Part III Comparative Perspective
7 A Double Visiting: Comparative Insights on Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices in Java
Conclusion: Going Home and Setting Off Again
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
