Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience

Author(s):
Nur Ichwan, M.
Published
1999
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

The Surinam-Javanese community in the Netherlands is divided over the question of the prayer direction; some perform their prayers facing the East, but most turn to the West. The majority are kejawen, following the syncretic practices and beliefs of Java. In this community the keblat (qibla) expresses a unique diasporic experience and identity.

Surinam-Javanese community
Date issued
1999
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Newsletter (1999), Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 36-43
hdl
1887/17303