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

Quinn, George

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ISBN 10: 1912049449 ISBN 13: 9781912049448

Casa editrice: Monsoon Books Pte Ltd, 2018

Riassunto

Bandit Saints of Java delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the weird world of local pilgrimage, where Middle Eastern Islam wrestles with the ancient power of Javanese civilisation. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today – largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists – by many of Java's 130 million people.

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Informazioni sull?autore

George Quinn holds a BA from Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia) and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Between 2001 and retirement in 2008 he was Head of the Southeast Asia Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He has a native-speaker level command of Indonesian and Javanese. He is the author of The Novel in Javanese (KITLV Press, 1991) and The Learner's Dictionary of Today's Indonesian (Allen & Unwin, 2001), plus many scholarly papers and an English translation of the Indonesian-language novel The Rape of Sukreni (Lontar, 2003).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Monsoon Books Pte Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1912049449
• ISBN 13: 9781912049448
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile