Islam and Prayers for the Environment in Java
All of the cases show re-dedication of prayers by Muslims with respect to the environment within a landscape of multiple, even expanding options. One ritual had come to exclude agents of prayer with...
View ArticleDedicating Environmental Devotions
In a trend I have seen developing in Indonesia for at least two decades, some Muslims in Indonesia have recast traditional devotional observances, salawat and dhikr, for non-traditional intents and...
View ArticleMount Merapi, Prayer and Disaster
Indonesia is one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, and it is one of the most severely threatened due to deforestation, sea temperature rise and acidification, and other impacts of resource...
View ArticleLandscapes of Environmental Prayer: Shifting Dedication
Landscapes of prayer for the environment in Indonesia are being transformed primarily through interventions of dedication and intent, and secondarily through structural form. Cases of observances of...
View ArticleRitual Environmental Stewardship in Islamic Indonesia
[Editor’s Note: This essay resides within Anna Gade’s “Landscapes of Prayer: Islam, the Environment, and Java,” a portal into Reverberations’ unfolding compendium of resources related to the study of...
View ArticleLiberal Protestant Assumptions in American Environmental Prayers
[Editor’s Note: This essay resides within Anna Gade’s “Landscapes of Prayer: Islam, the Environment, and Java,” a portal into the study of prayer.] Pope Francis’ historic encyclical on the environment...
View ArticleBroadening the Category of Prayer
[Editor’s Note: This essay is a part of “Landscapes of Prayer: Islam, the Environment, and Java,” Anna Gade’s portal into the study of prayer.] As Anna Gade points out, the case of istisqa’ is very...
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