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Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia : Magic and Modernity / ed. by Volker Gottowik.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: IIAS Publications ; 1Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089644244
  • 9789048516278
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.959
LOC classification:
  • BL2050 .D96 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Modern Spirits -- Spirits in and of Southeast Asia’s Modernity: An Overview -- The Social Placing of Religion and Spirituality in Vietnam in the Context of Asian Modernity. Perspectives for Research -- Where the Dead Go to the Market. Market and Ritual as Social Systems in Upland Southeast Asia -- Modernity and Spirit Possession in Java. Horse Dance and Its Contested Magic -- Modern Muslims -- Hadhrami Moderns. Recurrent Dynamics as Historical Rhymes of Indonesia’s Reformist Islamic Organization Al-Irsyad -- Mubeng Beteng. A Contested Ritual of Circumambulation in Yogyakarta -- ‘Muslim Modernities’ in Makassar and Yogyakarta. Negotiating ‘the West’ as a Frame of Reference -- Cosmological Battles. Understanding Susceptibility and Resistance to Transnational Islamic Revivalism in Java -- Modern Traditions -- Modes of Interreligious Coexistence and Civility in Maluku -- Ethnicity and Violence in Bali. And What Barong Landung Says about It -- Contested Moksa in Balinese Agama Hindu. Balinese Death Rituals between Ancestor Worship and Modern Hinduism -- Good Girls. Christianity, Modernity and Gendered Morality in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra -- Bukit Kasih, the Hill of Love. Multireligiosity for Pleasure -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography
Summary: Starting from the premise that modernity has cast a spell over people around the world, this collection explores the use of magic and religion as modern tools for connection. The contributors draw on new ethnographic research in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia to show that residents of these countries no longer see religion and modernity as contradictory. Rather, religious ideas and magic practices help people across the region to meet the challenges of modern life. Revising our understanding of religion in Southeast Asia, this collection sheds new light on the multiple modernities that characterize our globalized world.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Modern Spirits -- Spirits in and of Southeast Asia’s Modernity: An Overview -- The Social Placing of Religion and Spirituality in Vietnam in the Context of Asian Modernity. Perspectives for Research -- Where the Dead Go to the Market. Market and Ritual as Social Systems in Upland Southeast Asia -- Modernity and Spirit Possession in Java. Horse Dance and Its Contested Magic -- Modern Muslims -- Hadhrami Moderns. Recurrent Dynamics as Historical Rhymes of Indonesia’s Reformist Islamic Organization Al-Irsyad -- Mubeng Beteng. A Contested Ritual of Circumambulation in Yogyakarta -- ‘Muslim Modernities’ in Makassar and Yogyakarta. Negotiating ‘the West’ as a Frame of Reference -- Cosmological Battles. Understanding Susceptibility and Resistance to Transnational Islamic Revivalism in Java -- Modern Traditions -- Modes of Interreligious Coexistence and Civility in Maluku -- Ethnicity and Violence in Bali. And What Barong Landung Says about It -- Contested Moksa in Balinese Agama Hindu. Balinese Death Rituals between Ancestor Worship and Modern Hinduism -- Good Girls. Christianity, Modernity and Gendered Morality in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra -- Bukit Kasih, the Hill of Love. Multireligiosity for Pleasure -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography

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Starting from the premise that modernity has cast a spell over people around the world, this collection explores the use of magic and religion as modern tools for connection. The contributors draw on new ethnographic research in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia to show that residents of these countries no longer see religion and modernity as contradictory. Rather, religious ideas and magic practices help people across the region to meet the challenges of modern life. Revising our understanding of religion in Southeast Asia, this collection sheds new light on the multiple modernities that characterize our globalized world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)

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