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The Banyu Panguripan tradition actively produces and legitimizes the sacredness of spring water through historical and discursive processes that are continuously negotiated with local religious values. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Investigate the production process and legitimacy of water sacredness within the Banyu Panguripan ritual tradition in Pulosari District, Central Java.

September 5, 2026Asian Anthropology

Water, authority, and faith: the production of sacredness in Banyu Panguripan ritual in Pulosari, Central Java, Indonesia

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AIAfiliasi IlafiSebelas Maret University BSBani SudardiSebelas Maret University SSSlamet SubiyantoroSebelas Maret University

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Qualitative study reveals how rituals legitimize spring water sacredness and cultural identity in Central Java, highlighting ongoing negotiations with local religious values.

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Investigate the production process and legitimacy of water sacredness within the Banyu Panguripan ritual tradition in Pulosari District, Central Java.
Dissertation-based qualitative study conducted in Pulosari District, Pemalang Regency, Central Java.
Analyzed the discursive and historical evolution of spring water usage, oral heritage, spirit narratives, and ritual offering practices.
Demonstrates that sacredness develops gradually through a discursive framework transitioning from ecological necessity to taxonomic naming, danyang folklore, and ritual vessel hierarchies.
Identifies structural sacred differentiation between undistributed water in the primary jug and water dispersed to the community.
Documents ongoing cultural negotiations with local religious values through modified ritual offerings and symbolic divergence from common Javanese earth alms customs.

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Ilafi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd4126b95aff0620eb653 https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478x.2026.2721704

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Qualitative study reveals how rituals legitimize spring water sacredness and cultural identity in Central Java, highlighting ongoing negotiations with local religious values.

Water, authority, and faith: the production of sacredness in Banyu Panguripan ritual in Pulosari, Central Java, Indonesia

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