Buddhism in Indonesia

A Study of Multiple Revivals
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-48521-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the history and current revival of Buddhism on the Indonesian island of Java. Beginning by tracing how Buddhism came to Java from India via southeast Asia, it considers how Buddhism has survived and adapted as Islam and Christianity became dominant. It goes on to report on detailed anthropological research both in a remote highland community, Temanggung, and in Java’s main cities including Jakarta, showing how youth activism and close community cohesion have brought about revival. It includes an examination of the production of Buddhist wayside shrines. Throughout it shows how Buddhism in Java has fused with local traditional practices, local circumstances and trans-national processes to form a unique Javanese Buddhism.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rizzo, Roberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction                                                                                                 

1.     The eternal return. A brief history of Buddhism in Java.
SECTION I – FROM THE SEED OF THE ANCESTORS

2.     Surjosari, 2017. The establishment of a “revival in the revival”

3.     Enchantment and genealogy in mountain Java
SECTION II – ANCESTORS REVISITED

4.     Surjosari, 2019. More Javanese, more Buddhist? Two rites of passage

5.     The eventisation of Javaneseness in Temanggung
SECTION III – STATUES

6.     Uncanny stone. Statues and religious change in Java                  

7.     Garden shrines and the visual culture of a revival
SECTION IV – OTHER REVIVALS

8.     Entrepreneurial dharma in urban Java

9.     Aspiration and inspiration. Young Buddhist Association of Indonesia

Conclusions

Cited works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto Rizzo completed his doctorate at the University of Milan-Bicocca