Nasionalis-cum-Nahdliyin: a new identity for nominal Javanese Muslims

Dr. Akhmad Rizqon Khamami, Lc., M.A, 197408292008011006 (2022) Nasionalis-cum-Nahdliyin: a new identity for nominal Javanese Muslims. Springer Nature - Contemporary Islam, Switzerland.

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Abstract

This article discusses contemporary developments in Islam in Indonesia by specif￾cally looking at Muslims living in rural Java. Whereas most studies examine urban Muslims and mostly defne Islamization that leads to the emergence of the middle class and the so-called “conservative turn,” this article ofers a brief discussion of the transformation of non-practicing Muslims or abangan. Through feldwork in a remote village in Tulungagung, East Java, the article argues that the massive Islami￾zation in contemporary Java has invited the abangan to construct their new identity of Nasionalis-cum-Nahdliyin. While the term “Nasionalis” refers to a modern ideo￾logical category, “Nahdliyin” represents a mode of religiosity that confrms local customs and traditions. Looking at their communal ceremonies, such as yasinan￾tahlilan, this new identity has given the abangan a means to maintain their commu￾nal bond with their ancestral spirits on the one hand and community cohesion on the other. These communal activities are an amalgam of santri and abangan traditions with which the latter exercise their communal piety in the public space

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