5 The Purification Movement in Bayan, North Lombok: Orthodox Islam vis-à-vis Religious Syncretism

Erni Budiwanti

5 The Purification Movement in Bayan, North Lombok

Orthodox Islam vis-à-vis Religious Syncretism

In: Between Harmony and Discrimination: Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok

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Pages:: 144–162

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004271494_007

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Islam has a complicated history in Bayan, North Lombok. Visited centuries ago by one of the legendary Sufi Wali Songo evangelists, Bayan has become a site of dakwa missionary activities carried out by reformist religious figures, who seek to convert villagers to orthodox Islam. Bayan is a traditionalist village and the stronghold of the Wetu Telu, the nominal Muslims of Lombok who maintain adat, customary laws and rituals that placate ancestral and natural deities and socially bond communities together. While they declare themselves Muslim, these communities, now representing a small minority, follow few Islamic tenets and have used Islam – in the form of Arabic prayers – as a tool to sanctify and legitimise indigenous rituals in the modern world. This chapter explores the various agents, particularly the Muslim teacher/reformers called tuan guru, involved in dakwa, and the local responses that tend to preserve religious syncretism. 

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Between Harmony and Discrimination: Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok

Series: Brill's Southeast Asian Library, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004271494

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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5 The Purification Movement in Bayan, North Lombok

Orthodox Islam vis-à-vis Religious Syncretism

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