Indonesian Religions in Transition

by Rita Smith Kipp (Editor), Susan Rodgers (Editor)

Mostly papers from the Tenth Annual Indonesian Studies Conference, held at Ohio University in August 1982.
Space, motion, and symbol in Tetum religion / David Hicks --
Power of gods : maʼbugiʼ ritual of the Sa'dan Toraja / Eric Crystal and Shinji Yamashita --
Kaharingan : life and death in southern Borneo / Joseph A. Weinstock --
The religion of balance : evidence from an eleventh-century Javanese poem / Patricia B. Henry --
Islamic transformations : from Sufi doctrine to ritual practice in Gayo culture / John Bowen --
Entering the bitter house : spirit worship and conversion in West Sumba / Janet Hoskins --
Mortuary tourism in Tana Toraja / Toby Alice Volkman --
Religions in dialogue : the construction of an Indonesian minority religion / Jane Monnig Atkinson --
A rhetoric of centers in a religion of the periphery / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing --
Islam and law in Indonesia / Mahadi --
Islam and adat among South Tapanuli migrants in three Indonesian cities / Basyral Hamidy Harahap --
Sundanese Islam and the value of hormat : control, obedience, and social location in West Java / Jessica Glicken.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987