การแปลงความเชื่อชวาให้เป็นพุทธ: กรณีศึกษา น้ำศักดิ์สิทธิ์แห่งภูเขาเคอเดะ

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Previous studies on religious revitalization often pay attention to the role of religious leaders until it tends to portray how those religious specialists perform the ritual or convert local people to their religions. This paper argues that religio-political context of that place should not be ignored on the ground that religion is always formed by adapting and compromising with those factors. Ethnography conducted in Vihara Sakyawanaram (Bogor, West Java) reveals that in order to respond to the state's policy and the increasing stream of religiosity in Indonesia, Buddhist ritual has been invented to serve the need of Chinese Buddhists, meanwhile the temple still opens an opportunity for non-Buddhists who do not want to join the ritual to consume the place. Having scrutinized through the concept of hybridity suggested by Peter A. Jackson, hybridity does not necessity lead to new religion or syncretism, instead it just provide a platform to people from different backgrounds to perform their rituals in their own way.