Reformist Muslims in Yagyakarta Village: The Islamic Transformation of Contemporary Socio-Religious LifeThis study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers' construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the 'good Muslim' and 'Muslim-ness', on their efforts to incorporate an (reformist) Islamic framework to question taken-for-granted practices and ideas, on the position of traditional practices and ideas and their relation to reformist Islam, and on the interplay of villagers who show a strong commitment to reformist Islam with those who do not. Another topic investigated in this study is the interactions between Muslim and Christian villagers and the impacts of Christian presence on the process by which Muslims define themselves, their neighbours, their religion and their religious community. |
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Page 207 - Say: O disbelievers! I worship not that which ye worship; Nor worship ye that which I worship. And I shall not worship that which ye worship. Nor will ye worship that which I worship. Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion
Page 171 - Our sentence' hath justly been pronounced against the greater part of them ; wherefore they shall not believe. We have put yokes" on their necks, which come up to their chins ; and they are forced to hold up their heads ; * and we have set a bar before them, and a bar behind them ; d and we have covered them with darkness ; wherefore they shall not see.
Page 153 - And (remember) when We said unto the angels: Fall prostrate before Adam, and they fell prostrate, all save Iblis. He was of the Jinn, so he rebelled against his Lord's command.
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Page 101 - It was by the mercy of Allah that thou wast lenient with them (O Muhammad), for if thou hadst been stern and fierce of heart they would have dispersed from round about thee.
Page 3 - The village religious system commonly consists of a balanced integration of animistic, Hinduistic and Islamic elements, a basic Javanese syncretism which is the island's true folk tradition, the basic substratum of its...
Page 153 - Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said : Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.
Page 153 - And We created you, then fashioned you, then told the angels : Fall ye prostrate before Adam ! And they fell prostrate all save Iblis, who was not of those who make prostration. He said : What hindered thee that thou didst not fall prostrate when I bade thee ? (Iblis) said : I am better than him Thou createdst me of fire while him Thou didst create of mud.
Page 126 - Lord. 3. And He it is who spread out the earth and placed therein firm hills and flowing streams, and of all fruits he placed therein two spouses (male and female). He covereth the night with the day. Lo! herein verily are portents for people who take thought. 4. And in the Earth are neighbouring tracts, vineyards and ploughed lands, and...
Page 153 - He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path, Then I shall come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right hands and from their left hands, and Thou wilt not find most of them beholden (unto Thee), He said: Go forth from hence, degraded, banished.