Kurniawan, Ade Fakih (2019) CULTURAL NEGOTIATION, AUTHORITY, AND DISCURSIVE TRADITION: THE WAWACAN SEH RITUAL IN BANTEN. Doktoral thesis, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta.
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This dissertation deals with cultural negotiation, authority and power identification, and the process of change in the Wawacan Seh ritual in Banten. Drawing on Talal Asad’s theory of discursive tradition, it will answer the following research questions: Why does the Wawacan Seh tradition still exist in Banten? What elements in this tradition have been preserved and modified? What are the underlying factors that influence ritual change, and how are these factors involved in the discourse? In case of supporting data, I use both bibliographical and empirical investigations. The Wawacan Seh (literally meaning: reading the mana>qib of the Sheikh) is a ritual activity in which people gather to recite and listen to Sheikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jailani’s mana>qib (hagiography text). The text is written in an old form of the Banten-Javanese language, in a non-rhyming poetic form called macapat and is sang by a juru maos (reader) using a traditional chanting technique specific for these poems. The Bantenese perform this ritual to ngalap berkah (j/s. to seek God’s blessing) and to obtain kesakten (j/s. supernatural powers). They also mostly perform it in pre-Islamic ways, such as by using various sesajen (j. offerings) and they do it during every life-cycle ritual (or rites of passage). In Banten, this ritual has become the “main ingredient” for almost all of Bantenese’s performing arts and local religious traditions such as debus, rudat, beluk, pencak silat, and others. In practice, the ritual often invites reactions from Universalist Muslims who deem the ritual “non-Islamic”. The encounter of many traditions and cultures leads to discourse, and subsequently to new cultural negotiation. There are three outcomes in the discourse about the Wawacan Seh tradition: continuity, modified continuity, and discontinuity. As a continued but modified ritual, the Wawacan Seh undergoes changes that, to some extent, are attempts to adjust to cultural and social changes. There are three aspects of change in the ritual: symbolic meaning, function, and structure. These changes can be analysed from the new modified forms of the ritual such as maca silsilah, Manakiban, and istigosah kubro. The discourse involves three influential elements: subjects (such as religious discourse in relation to the expression of local Islam between Localists-Moderates - Universalists), events (such as migration, education, decrease of ritual guide successors), and conditions (such as modernism, rationalism, globalism, transnationalism, and political-economicconditions) The changes in the Wawacan Seh ritual not only mark significant changes in an objective form of culture but also in the sense of ontological, social, and power relations inherent in it. These changes indicate that there are other, more systematic and structured changes that surround cultural agents, simultaneously at the level of social interaction, power relations, and structures of authority, as well as in terms of these agents’ worldview and their religious perspective. In the sense of theoretical implication, drawing on Asad’s theory of discursive tradition, it inevitably led me to decipher the power relation. Even so, although on many occasions, Asad criticized Geertz's approach to interpretation and symbolic meaning, this dissertation shows that both theories (Geertz's interpretive and symbolic meaning and Asad’s power relations and practices) cannot be separated nor can they exclusively run on their own.
| Tipe Item/Data: | Skripsi/Tesis/Disertasi (Doktoral) |
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| Kata Kunci (keywords): | CULTURAL NEGOTIATION, AUTHORITY, DISCURSIVE TRADITION, RITUAL IN BANTEN |
| Subjek: | 200 Agama > 210 Filsafat & teori agama 2x0 ISLAM (Umum) > 2x0.0-12.9 Islam dan Ilmu Pengetahuan |
| Divisi: | Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Adab > Filsafat Agama |
| User Penyetor: | Ainun Najah |
| Tanggal Disetorkan: | 17 Apr 2023 06:18 |
| Perubahan Terakhir: | 17 Apr 2023 06:18 |
| URI: | http://repository.uinbanten.ac.id/id/eprint/12209 |
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