Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's Eccentric Saints Are Challenging Fundamentalist Islam in Modern Indonesia

by George Quinn

Java's pilgrimage culture is a dense, batik-like pattern of contradictions: seriousness collides with laughter; curiosity with bewilderment; piety with scepticism; intense spirituality with, in some places, the joy of shopping.

The pilgrimage culture on the island of Java in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim country - is a rebuke to the conservative orthodoxy that has been gaining ground in Indonesia's religious landscape since the 1980s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912049449
• ISBN13: 9781912049448
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Monsoon Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.7"