<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524345" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Evolution Of Javanese Religion?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who lives on this island of Java<br>stone age Java man is long gone? <br> <br>Java world's most populous island<br>scene of dramatic Indonesian history</div><div style="margin:10px 0">powerful centre of Hindu-Buddhist empires<br>Islamic sultanates Mataram in Central Java<br>sultanates of Ternate and Tidore to the east <br>Java core of the colonial Dutch East Indies <br>centre of Indonesia's independence campaign</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Java a population of over 136 million one <br>of the most densely populated places on <br>earth this most densely populated region <br>is the world home to 60% of Indonesia's <br>population and Indonesian capital Jakarta </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Java an island formed by volcanic events<br>thirty-eight mountains form an east-west<br>spine once active volcanoes Mount Merapi<br>erupts most active Mount Semeru highest </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Java a melting pot of religions and cultures<br>Indian Hinduism then Mahayana Buddhism<br>Shaivism Buddhism sunk roots into psyche<br>pre-Islamic Islamic lore belief and practice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">merge murky mystic sharp divisions kyais<br>orthodox merely instructed in Islamic law <br>versus mysticism those who seek reformed <br>Islam with modern scientific concepts war</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for mind control santri believe more orthodox <br>Islamic belief practice versus abangan mixed <br>pre-Islamic animistic Hindu-Indian concepts <br>with a superficial acceptance of Islamic belief</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abangan local adat beliefs integrates Hinduism<br>Buddhism Animist traditions or pure Sharia law? <br>Indonesian variance from Islam sect mushrooms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kebatinan metaphysical search for harmony <br>within one's inner self spiral connection with <br>the universe with an Almighty God Javanese <br>occultism metaphysics mysticism and esoteric <br>doctrines exemplify search tendency synthesis</div><div style="margin:10px 0">flexible syncresis in all manifestations attainable<br>even in conflict Javanese ideals combine human <br>wisdom psyche perfection (wicaksana) (waskita) <br>(sempurna) followers must control passions forgo</div><div style="margin:10px 0">earthly riches comforts reach enlightened harmony <br>union with spirit of the universe spiritual cosmology<br>radical Islam instead splinters into Bali Jakata bombs <br>Islamic Jemaah Islamiah terrorists paradise suicides’ <br>an Islamic boarding school run by mad militant cleric</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us pray Islam can will avoid a Christian dark age... </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>See also the poem ‘Let Us Pray Islam Will Avoid A Religious Dark Age’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524345" data-title="An Evolution Of Javanese Religion? de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Who lives on this island of Java stone age Java man is long gone? Java world's most populous island scene of dramatic Indonesian history powerful centre of Hindu-Buddhist empires Islamic sultanates Mataram in Central Java sultanates of Ternate..."></div> </div> </div>

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