Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society - Tapa blanda

Bowen, John R.

 
9780691028705: Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society
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ISBN 10: 0691028702 ISBN 13: 9780691028705
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1993

Sinopsis

In this rich account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia, John Bowen describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be--as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. Whereas many previous anthropological studies have concentrated on the purely local aspects of culture, this book captures and analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life. Current religious differences among the Gayo stem from debates between "traditionalist" and "modernist" scholars that began in the 1930s, and reveal themselves in the ways Gayo discuss and perform worship, sacrifice, healing, and rites of birth and death, all within an Islamic framework.

Bowen considers the power these debates accord to language, especially in arguments over spells, rites of farming, hunting, and healing. Moreover, he traces in these debates a general conception of transacting with spirits that has shaped Gayo practices of sacrifice, worship, and aiding the dead. Bowen concludes by examining the development of competing religious ideas in the highlands, the alternative ritual forms and ideas they have pro-mulgated, and the implications of this phenomenon for the emergence of an Islamic public sphere.

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John R. Bowen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University. He is author of Sumatran Politics and Poetics: Gayo History, 1900-1989 (Yale).

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1993
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ISBN 10 
0691028702
ISBN 13 
9780691028705
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Número de páginas
374
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9780691094755: Muslims through Discourse: Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society

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ISBN 10:  0691094756 ISBN 13:  9780691094755
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1993
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