From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis
From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis

Author: Stephen C. Headley

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0191583812

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In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was immediately the subject of debate among students of Javanese culture. Stephen C. Headley translates and studies ritual and myth in their variant forms. He expands illuminatingly upon Rasser's general proposition, that the movement from cosmogony to exorcism founds fundamental social forms within which values circulate in Javanese society. Richly detailed descriptions confirm the permanence of these networks of circulating values in modern-day Java, and their persistence in the face of contemporary individualism.

From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis
From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javanese Genesis

Author: Stephen Cavana Headley

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780198234234

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'This book gives the reader much food for thought, not only about Javanese mythology, the wayang, and cosmology, but also about what it is to be a Javanese person within a cosmos so construed.' -Moussons'Interesting reading... the author is well equipped to carry out this task, having an unusual and impressive command of the literature. His tour through the mythological background is intriguing and insightful... many suggestive leads and fascinating links between mythology, kinship, and ritual... From Cosmogony to Exorcism offers an analysis in the structuralist mode and it makes a brilliant contribution to this tradition.' -AnthroposStephen Headley translates and studies a Javanese ritual and myth, the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. He shows that this genesis myth, with its movement from cosmogony to exorcism, constitutes the basis of networks of circulating values in contemporary Javanese society.

Tantric Temples
Tantric Temples

Author: Peter Levenda

Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0892541695

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"A history of tantra in Java and its origin and practice and how it has influenced and interacted with Tibetan Tantra, Hindu mysticism and Sufi Islam and Western sexual magical practices. Illustrated with full color photos of old and newly excavated and uncovered temples, along with with statues and iconography dedicated to practices in shrines, cemeteries and secret schools."--Publisher's description.

Durga's Mosque
Durga's Mosque

Author: Stephen Headley

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9789812302427

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Stephen Headley's new book explores contemporary religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his analysis of the Durga ritual complex, the author sheds light on one of the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of deepening Islamisation.