ILCAA Joint Research Project

Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts (jrp000193)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2013–March, 2016

This project clarifies how foreign religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam have been interpreted and transformed in Java from the 9th to 19th century by comparing and analyzing Javanese (old and modern Javanese) texts. First, we will compile a concordance of the Javanese texts that have been transcribed and published for academic purposes since the 19th century. Then, we will identify and analyze diachronic changes in these religions’ concepts in Java as well as related changes in the Javanese language and culture as expressed in these Javanese texts. Concurrently, we aim at forming an international academic network for Javanese text research, as compiling the intended concordance requires cooperation among researchers throughout the world.

Members

Coordinator

• Yumi SUGAHARA (Osaka University)

ILCAA Staff

• Hideo SAWADA
• Asako SHIOHARA
• Koji MIYAZAKI

Joint Researchers

• Eni Sri Budi Lestari
• Miho YAMASAKI
• Oman Fathurahman
• Sri Budi Lestari
• Sumio FUKAMI
• Toru AOYAMA
• Willem van der Molen

Outputs

Meetings

The 12th meeting

• Date/Time: 5 March 2016 (Sat.) 13:00-14:30 (open), 15:00-17:30 (closed)
• Venue: Room 306 , ILCAA
• Languages: English and Japanese
• 13:00-14:30 (open)

• Edwin WIERINGA (ILCAA Special Visiting Professor)

  “Satan’s Sermon:A late-19th-century Javanese Elite Objections to the Spirit of the Age”

• 15:00-17:30 (closed)

• All members

  discussion for the next term

The 11th meeting

• Date/Time: 23 November 2015 (Mon.) 13:00‐18:00
• Venue: Room 306 , ILCAA
• Languages: English and Japanese

• Toru AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Understanding Poerbatjaraka's Kepustakaan Djawa”

  Sumio FUKAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Momoyama Gakuin University)

  “Bibliographical Notes and Perspectives of the Babad Tanah Jawi”

  Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “D.A.Rinkes and his study on Wali Songo”

  All members

  meeting

The 10th meeting

• Date/Time: 26 July 2015 (Sun.) 13:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 302 , ILCAA
• Languages: English and Japanese

• Miho YAMASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Analysis of the imprecations in Old Javanese inscriptions from the 9th and 10th centuries” (tentative)

  Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “How to be a true Muslim according to admonitions formulated in a period of religious transition in Java” (tentative)

  All members

  meeting

The 9th meeting

• Date/Time: 20 June 2015 (Sat.) 13:30-15:30 (closed), 16:00-17:30 (open)
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA
• Languages: English and Japanese
• (closed) 13:30-15:30

• All members

  Discussion on the papers of International Symposium held on February 2015

• (open) 16:00-17:30

• Peter WORSLEY (ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “Javanese Epic Poetry, the Lived Environment and Cosmological Order”

The 8th meeting

• International Symposium “Transformation of Religions as reflected in Javanese texts” : program as PDF
• Date/Time: 11 February 2015 (Wed.) 9:15-16:40 (open)，12 February 2015 (Thu.) 9:30-17:10 (open)，13 February 2015 (Fri.) 10:00-11:45 (closed)
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Chairpersons: Mikihiro MORIYAMA (Nanzan University), Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) ,Toru AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA and ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts”, JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator : Koji MIYAZAKI (ILCAA))
• 11 February (open)

• Opening Remarks

  Miho YAMASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Transformation of religions as reflected in Old Javanese inscriptions from 9th and 10th centuries; Analysis of the imprecations”

  Dwi PUSPITRINI (University of Indonesia)

  “The religious words in Adiparwa” (tentative)

  Stuart ROBSON (ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “Some aspects of the thought-world of the Old Javanese Kakawin”

  Toru AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “The significance of “mokṣa” in the Ramayana reliefs in the light of Old Javanese texts”

  All members

  discussion

  Kartika SETYAWATI (Gadjah Mada University)

  “Kidung Surajaya: believers of the mountains.”

  Ben ARPS (Leiden University)

  “The benefits of purity in Amarta and Surakarta: the shadow play of Bima Suci, 1810s–1830s”

  George QUINN (Australian National University)

  “A textual history of the tenth wali”

  All members

  discussion

• 12 February (open)

• Nancy FLORIDA (University of Michigan)

  “Ronggasasmita’s Suluk Aceh: Syattari metaphysics in Javanese Sufi poems composed in 1815 Aceh”

  Koji MIYAZAKI (ILCAA)

  “Javanese Calendar and Myth: Story of Watu Gunung”

  Ronit RICCI (Australian National University, Hebrew University)

  “Muslim and Javanese in the diaspora: preliminary thoughts about Javanese experiences in colonial Ceylon”

  Willem van der Molen (ILCAA Joint Researcher, KITLV)

  “The meaning of Islam in the history of the Chinese in Java according to the Sajarah Cina”

  All members

  discussion

  Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  Edwin WIERINGA (University of Cologne)

  “Re-reading traditional Javanese literature: nineteenth-century elite court literature and the question of gender”

  Oman FATHURAHMAN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)

  “A further discussion on the Javanese Islamic manuscripts in the British Library Collection”

  Saiful UMAM (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)

  “Glocalization of early printed pegon texts”

  All members

  discussion

• 13 February (closed)

• All members

  about Javanese Concordance

  Closing

The 7th meeting

• Date/Time: 14 December 2014 (Sun.) 13:00-17:00
• Venue: Room 301 , ILCAA
• Languages: English, Japanese

• All members

  Presentations for the international symposium in February

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: 29 November 2014 (Sat.) 13:00-17:00
• Venue: Room 301 , ILCAA
• Languages: English, Japanese

• All members

  Presentations for the international symposium in February

  Stuart Owen, ROBSON (ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “Some Aspects of the Thought-World of the Old Javanese Kakawin”

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: 1 August 2014 (Fri.) 14:00-17:00 (closed), 2 August 2014 (Sat.) 9:30-12:00 (closed), 13:30-17:30 (open), 3 August 2014 (Sun.) 9:00-12:30 (closed)
• Venue: Room 301, ILCAA
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by　JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator:　Sumio FUKAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, St. Andrew’s University)
• 1 August

• Takashi KOEZUKA (Emeritus Professor, Osaka University)

  “On the last survey in Central Vietnam”

  Yukitsugu TABATA (Waseda University)

  “Chronology on Mekon Delta (9th-18th centuries) based on ceramics”

• 2 August
• 9:30-12:00 (closed)

• Takashi KOEZUKA (Emeritus Professor, Osaka University)

  “Review on the exhibition “Lost Kingdoms” of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York”

  Ayumi HARADA (Kyushu National Museum)

  “Dvaravati culture introduced at the exhibition of Metropolitan Museum of Art”

• 13:30-17:30 (open)

• Fumiaki MATSUURA (JSPS / Sophia University)

  “Reading真臘伝”

  Miho YAMAZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Reading Old Javanese inscriptions - Rukam inscription (907 AD)”

• 3 August

• Katsura SATO (National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)

  “On the Chronology based on the architecture history”

  Keiko SATO (Sophia University)

  “Book review”

  All members

  Meeting

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: 13 January 2014 (Mon.) 13:00-17:00
• Venue: Room 301 , ILCAA
• Languages: Japanese, English

• Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Editorial policy of Javanese Concordance”

  All members

  “Possibilities of research with Concordance”

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: 8 June 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-17:00
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA

• Oman Fathurahman (ILCAA Visiting Professor)

  “The Manuscripts of Shattariyyah Silsilah in Java: Arabic, Javanese, Malay, and Sundanese”

  Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA)

  “Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) Project”

The 2nd meeting

• Date/Time: 18 May 2013 (Sat.)13:00-17:00
• Venue: Conference Room 630A, 6th Floor, Bldg 2, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University
• Jointly organized by SIAS（Center of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University）
• The Comparative Study of Isra Miraj in Southeast Asia

• Dick van der Meij (Center for the Study of Religion and Culture (CSRC), Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta)

  “The text of the Isra Mi‘raj in Indonesia: A global overview” (tentative title)

  Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “The Night Journey translated by Ahmad Rifa’i Kalisalak” (tentative title)

  Midori KAWASHIMA (Sophia University)

  “The Maranao Text of the Isra Mi‘raj” (tentative title)

  All members

  Comments

  All members

  Open discussion

The 1st meeting

• Date/Time: 20 April 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-17:30
• Venue: Room 302 , ILCAA

• Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Outline of this project”

  Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Malay Concordance Project (ANU)”

  All members

  Discussion about the research plan

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