Abstract:
In Javanese culture, Madness, spirituality and religion are all deeply rooted metaphysical phenomena.In Javanese community, there are many experiences of the unthinkable and untouchable which have big spiritual effects on persons with mental illness. This research looks at how some recovered patients with mental illness become religious and spiritualist. Seeing social precarity, social withdrawal and psychosis phenomena, this study will show how spirituality of religion used as media to rehabilitate and re-socialize the patient with mental healing need. Since this research was standing in religion and public life framework, this research will be focused on how the process of mental rehabilitation was also shaping spirituality discourse in public life. Through interviewing recovered patients treated in mental hospitals and with traditional healing, this study also seeks the connection between mental vulnerability, religiousity and madness.
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