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Although the overwhelming majority of Javanese are Muslims, many of them also profess indigenous Javanese beliefs. Clifford Geertz, in his book about the religion of Java made a distinction between the so-called santri Javanese and abangan Javanese.[14] He considered santri Javanese as orthodox Muslims while abangan Javanese are nominal Muslims that devote more energy to [...]