Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Javanese Islam
- PART I THE SOCIOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF RELIGION IN CENTRAL JAVA
- PART II RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL RELIGIOUS HISTORY
- PART III INVOKING THE COSMOS, MAGNIFYING ALLAH: STRUCTURING A LANDSCAPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES
- 7 The Khandava Forest in India and Its Javanese Demon Queen
- 8 The Spearing of Durga's Buffalo
- 9 Invoking the Goddess Durga; Worshipping Allah
- 10 The Javanization of Islamic Prayer; The Islamization of Javanese Prayer
- 11 Javanese Cosmologies and Muslim Cosmographies: An Encompassing Knowledge?
- PART IV COSMOLOGY, CONVERSION AND COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL JAVANESE ISLAM TODAY
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
8 - The Spearing of Durga's Buffalo
from PART III - INVOKING THE COSMOS, MAGNIFYING ALLAH: STRUCTURING A LANDSCAPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Cosmology, Conversion and Community in Javanese Islam
- PART I THE SOCIOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF RELIGION IN CENTRAL JAVA
- PART II RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL RELIGIOUS HISTORY
- PART III INVOKING THE COSMOS, MAGNIFYING ALLAH: STRUCTURING A LANDSCAPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES
- 7 The Khandava Forest in India and Its Javanese Demon Queen
- 8 The Spearing of Durga's Buffalo
- 9 Invoking the Goddess Durga; Worshipping Allah
- 10 The Javanization of Islamic Prayer; The Islamization of Javanese Prayer
- 11 Javanese Cosmologies and Muslim Cosmographies: An Encompassing Knowledge?
- PART IV COSMOLOGY, CONVERSION AND COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL JAVANESE ISLAM TODAY
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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- Durga's MosqueCosmology, Conversion and Community in Central Javanese Islam, pp. 282 - 329Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2004