Modernization and Religious Purification: Islam in Indonesia
Modernization, or, more specifically, education and urbanization, has been associated with secularization. Some writers, however, suggest that modern people are not so much secular but religiously different. In this paper I test the idea that modernization is associated with the purification of reli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1980
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Review of religious research
Year: 1980, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-218 |
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| Summary: | Modernization, or, more specifically, education and urbanization, has been associated with secularization. Some writers, however, suggest that modern people are not so much secular but religiously different. In this paper I test the idea that modernization is associated with the purification of religious lifestyles. Data come from a stratified random sample of Javanese (N=1667). The main findings are that education and community size are related to the decline of folk religion and to a net increase in the proportion of Muslims who are active religious purists. It is suggested that modernization favors purification, not so much because modern people reject syncretism, as because they abandon magical practices. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510661 |
