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Mark R Woodward

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Name
  
Mark Woodward


Role
  
Author

Education
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Books
  
Defenders of Reason in Islam, New Myreligionlab with Pear, Religions of the World - M, Islam in Java, Religions of the World wit

Mark R. Woodward is an American academic and author of Islam in Java.

Contents

He conducted ethnographic research in the Yogyakarta Indonesia region in the New Order era.

Critical response

Islam in Java elicited a range of responses due to its diverging from Clifford Geertz's observations of almost 30 years before in East Java.

Publications

  • Woodward, Mark R. (1989) Islam in Java : normative piety and mysticism in the sultanate of Yogyakarta University of Arizona Press, Tucson: Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies ; no. 45. ISBN 0-8165-1103-9 (alk. paper)
  • Suwarno, Peter (1999) Dictionary of Javanese proverbs and idiomatic expressions with a foreword by Mark R. Woodward Yogyakarta, Indonesia : Gadjah Mada University Press. ISBN 979-420-452-8
  • Lukens-Bull, Ronald and Mark Woodward (2011) “Goliath and David in Gaza: Indonesian myth-building and conflict as a cultural system.” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life 5:1-17

    • References

    Mark R. Woodward Wikipedia
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