Religiosity of the Indigenous Kasepuhan Sunda Community in West Java

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10.2991/assehr.k.201113.061How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Religiosity, Sundanese culture, indigenous religion, Islam, Ciptagelar community

Abstract

This research is set out on the basis of a unique diversity that occurs in an indigenous (kasepuhan) Sundanese community in Ciptagelar. In general, Sundanese people are Muslims, but some Sundanese indigenous peoples are practicing a religion that is better known as the Sunda Wiwitan, a religious belief born and developed by the Sundanese Buhun, or early Sundanese people. This research aims to uncover and find out values of religiosity of the indigenous Sundanese community in Ciptagelar, located in Sirnarasa village of Sukabumi district, West Java province. This research uses a qualitative, descriptive method, a technique that reveals the research data in depth in order to know the description of the objects accurately. The results of this research substantiates a religion that thrives among the indigenous Sundanese people, rituals of which are based on the culture of Sunda wiwitan or buhun (indigenous people) and the influences of Islamic teachings. Hence, the religion of the indigenous kasepuhan Sundanese community is an accommodation of how the Sundanese local culture with the teachings of Islam.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Deni Miharja
AU  - Idrus Ruslan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/13
TI  - Religiosity of the Indigenous Kasepuhan Sunda Community in West Java
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Raden Intan International Conference on Muslim Societies and Social Sciences (RIICMuSSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 322
EP  - 326
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201113.061
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201113.061
ID  - Miharja2020
ER  -