Mark R. Woodward

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

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.^[1]

References

1. ^ Nakamura Mitsuo (1990) Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 717-719

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 0816511039 (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 9794204528

External links

• Arizona State University Webpage for Woodard

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