The crescent arises over the banyan tree

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"Part One of this book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970-72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity. The author was one of the first scholars who had noted that there was continuing Islamization in Indonesia and predicted its progress in the future. Part Two is based on the author's three decades of follow-up visits to the Kotagede from the 1970s to 2010. During this period, the Muhammadiyah movement made enormous advancements, enough to to make the town known as a "Muhammadiyah town". On the national level, the Muhammadiyah has grown to be the second largest Islamic civil society organization (after the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama) in Indonesia, with millions of members and supporters. Yet, the wider environment for it has been altered greatly by urbanization, diversification and globalization. It is also facing unprecedented challenges arising from calls for democratization in the post-Soeharto era. The longitudinal study in this volume depicts the most recent dynamics of the Muhammadiyah movement in a local as well as transhistoric context."--Publisher.

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Other Editions

• The crescent arises over the banyan tree: a study of the Muhammadijah movement in a central Javenese town1976-01-01
• The crescent arises over the banyan treeInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies2012
• The crescent arises over the banyan treeGadjah Mada University Press1983-01-01
• The crescent arises over the banyan treeGadjah Mada University Press1983-01-01
• Bulan sabit muncul dari balik pohon beringinGadjah Mada University Press1983-01-01