The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java

Candland, Christopher; Nurjanah, Siti

The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java

dc.contributor.author	Candland, Christopher
dc.contributor.author	Nurjanah, Siti
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-03T19:16:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-03T19:16:17Z
dc.date.issued	2015-03-14
dc.description.abstract	Character and virtue are changing rapidly in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. The long-praised preference for communal harmony over individual advancement is under great stress. The dominant force behind this is thought to be secular consumerism. Our project aims to assess the impact of commercialization and modern Islamic religious education on the Javanese preference for communal harmony. An extensive survey of Javanese parents and their children and close ethnographic studies of individuals will provide insights into the changing nature of Javanese morality, which is the heart of Indonesian culture. Rather than focus on self-reported values, we will focus on the morality stories that people tell. We hypothesize that the new moral repertoires of consumerism and religiosity are not in competition but are rather working in tandem to undermine the preference for communal harmony in Javanese culture.	en_US
dc.description.peerreview	No	en_US
dc.description.uri	https://youtu.be/TYNDDIJVLRc
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/22718
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SMV Project Conference 2015
dc.subject	Anthropology, Cultural.	en_US
dc.subject	Philosophy	en_US
dc.title	The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
ou.group	ISHF::Moral Self Archive::Conferences::2015