Mark R. Woodward is an American academic and author of ''Islam in Java''. He conducted ethnographic research in the

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

region in the New Order era.

Critical response

''Islam in Java'' elicited a range of responses due to its diverging from

Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades. ...

's observations of almost 30 years before in

East Java East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...

.Nakamura Mitsuo (1990) Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 717-719

References

Publications

* Woodward, Mark R. (1989) ''Islam in Java : normative piety and mysticism in the sultanate of Yogyakarta'' University of Arizona Press, Tucson: Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies ; no. 45. (alk. paper) * Suwarno, Peter (1999) ''Dictionary of Javanese proverbs and idiomatic expressions'' with a foreword by Mark R. Woodward Yogyakarta, Indonesia : Gadjah Mada University Press. * Lukens-Bull, Ronald and Mark Woodward (2011) “Goliath and David in Gaza: Indonesian myth-building and conflict as a cultural system.” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life 5:1-17

External links

Arizona State University Webpage for Woodard
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