Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia

Quinn, George

ISBN 10: 1912049449 / ISBN 13: 9781912049448

Published by Monsoon Books, 2018

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432 pages. 7.50x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia
• Publisher: Monsoon Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912049449
• ISBN 13: 9781912049448
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Bandit Saints of Java is a work of nonfiction that delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the wacky world of local pilgrimage. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today - largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists - by many of the 130 million people of Java.

About the Author

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).