This article compares three pilgrimage sites in Central Java known for heterodox ritual practices. These practices include sexual activities between partners who are not married to each other (ritual seks). Since the sexual partners meet each other as strangers, they ignore the possible differences of rank and status between them and encounter each other as equals. These practices are part of a ritual repertoire that is constitutive of a current within Islam for which the controversial category abangan has established itself in anthropological discourse. The fact that these ritual practices have been enjoying an unprecedented boom in the context of local pilgrimages since the 1980s sheds a different light on the widely held thesis of a decline in this social category. Rather, this boom makes it clear that the Islamisation of Indonesia is not a linear process, but is ambivalent and contradictory.

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仪式，性别与身体：中爪哇朝圣遗址的异变仪式

本文比较了中爪哇的三个朝圣站点，这些站点以异端仪式习惯着称。这些习俗包括彼此不结婚的伴侣之间的性行为（礼节）。由于性伴侣以陌生人的身份相遇，因此他们忽略了彼此之间等级和地位的可能差异，并平等地相遇。这些习俗是一个仪式剧目的一部分，该仪式剧目构成了伊斯兰流中的一种潮流，有争议的类别“安邦”已在人类学话语中确立了自己的地位。自1980年代以来，这些仪式在当地朝圣中得到了空前的繁荣，这一事实为人们普遍认为这一社会类别减少的观点提供了不同的见解。而是