Verena Meyer - Theologies of Remembering: Modernity, Ambiguity and Transcendence
In a Yogyakarta neighbourhood of narrow alleyways beside the Kraton, closed to motorbikes, two boys were born within two years of each other. One would found the modernist Muhammadiyah in 1912, and the other would found Pesantren Krapyak, a cornerstone of the traditionalist world of Nahdlatul Ulama. Their paths diverged, and the story we usually tell about them diverges too: traditionalists remember, modernists break with the past. Traditionalists are comfortable with paradox and lineages, modernists with clarity and progress. Dr Verena Meyer found something different. Listening to people in…
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