Abstract:
The paper tries to examine the role of Petilasan Sunan Kalijaga in Surowiti hill, Gresik. Interestingly, this sacred space can host not only visitors seeking spiritual connection, but also function as historical centers or tourist attractions that act as multivalent symbols for competing narratives about history, identity, and religious practice. The various audiences and complexities of experience deduced in this site requires us to take a broad approach to consider both on the religious discourses, sacredness and secular interest. For broad explanation, the writer tries to look the site closely by defining the applied practice that had been existed in this petilasan due to the development of the pilgrimage or tourism perspective, modernization and identity. At the discussion remark, examining Robert Bellah’s theory of religious evolution on which how both local inhabitant and tourists shifted the sense of the pilgrimage.
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