ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides government and palace-organized ceremonies, celebrations and rituals, cultural and/or religious associations', small groups', healer's and individual's rituals, popular cultural arts, and a new religious movement's artistic pengajian sessions based upon my ethnographic research. The author conducts with people from various walks of life, including palace officials, government civil servants, students, workers, vendors, teachers, cultural artists, religious scholars, neighborhood residents, villagers and religious movement followers and elders, provide a broad view of various, interconnected sectors of local society, and perspectives on public cultural forms and what they mean for the direction of change. Complex combinations of elements from multiple cultural streamsanimist, Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic mysticismare blended in elaborate festivities marketed to tourists while socializing locals with representations of the magical powers of mediating figures, entities and substances.
