Tasawuf And Nature Embodiment

Abstract

Gadis Arrivia narrated that Goddess Religion is a counterbalance of religion with male-imagined God in terms of imprisoning wo-men corporeality and sexuality, and, on the other hand, is a religion in which God-ess is strictly associated with fertility and thus environment. Islam has tasawuf, which is considered the very land of patriarchal religious notion of Islam. This paper excavates religious traces of tasawuf being masculinized and withdrawn from the Earth as its source of spirituality. In a particular section, it also discusses the simultaneous process of Islamization in Java and of the extraction of Javanese from the nature.