Yumi Sugahara and Willem van der Molen, Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages an

Abstract

Java’s literary culture and religious pluralism have long attracted academic attention and debate. The religious transformations and changes that accommodated first Indic and later Islamic models over the centuries shaped a distinctive social and cultural milieu in which religious practices and understandings came to be deeply entwined in distinctively Javanese textual formations. The present volume brings together a group of leading Javanese textual experts to address the dynamism of religi...