Abangan-Islam or Making Islam Indigeneous?

The abangan religious tradition, made up primarily of the ritual feast called slametan, of extensive and intricate complex of spirit beliefs, and of a whole set of theories and pratices of curing, sorcery, and magig, is the first subvariant within the general Javanese religious system which I shall present below. Based on that paragraph, the religion tradition abangan, therefore, rest on ritual feast called slametan. Meanwhile, the belief of spirit and healing or indigenous or mysterious theory is the smallest part in the system of “the religion of Java.” Because of limited space and time, we only need to take a look at some ritual examples or slametan ceremony in the thing the so-called “the religion of Java”. First is Slametan Kelahiran (Born Day Slametan). One of the parts in the ceremony is the food dedication to prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in order to all participants of slametan process is running well. The food dedication is addressed to Dewi Pertimah as well. Geertz says that this figure is “The Hindu Goddess, Fatimah”―i.e.Muhammad’s daughter with a Hindu title! ”Second, still in the slametan context, the food is a dedication to eight walis (saint) who spread Islam in Java, particularly Sunan Kalijaga. And then, the other half, the food is given to the danyang of the village.