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Author: Joseph Chinyong Liow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1107167728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the ways in which religion and nationalism have interacted to provide a powerful impetus for mobilization in Southeast Asia.
Author: Kirsten W. Endres
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0857453599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their innate adaptability to changing times and circumstances. Through in-depth anthropological case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, the contributors to this book investigate the role and impact of different social, political, and economic dynamics in the reconfiguration of local spirit worlds in modern Southeast Asia. Their findings contribute to the re-enchantment debate by revealing that the “spirited modernities” that have emerged in the process not only embody a distinct feature of the contemporary moment, but also invite a critical rethinking of the concept of modernity itself.
Author: Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0759124418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this overview of popular religion in Southeast Asia, Robert L. Winzeler offers an interpretative look at the nature of today’s indigenous religious traditions as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity and conversion. He focuses not on religion as it exists in books, doctrine, theology, and among elites and dominant institutions but rather in the lives, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people. Popular Religion in Southeast Asia employs a broad view of religion as involving not just the usual Western notions of faith but also supernatural belief in general, magic, sorcery, and practical concerns such as healing, personal protection, and success in business. Case studies and concrete examples flesh out the discussion, demonstrating how popular religion relates to historical and contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic developments in the region.
Author: Andrea Pistolesi
Publisher: PadPlaces
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 8898437412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A photographic essay on the intense spiritual cultures of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam
Author: Donny Gahral Adian
Publisher: CRVP
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1565182502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gary D. Bouma
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-12-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9048133890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world. While reports of the impact of religious diversity on Europe and North America are reasonably well-known, the ways in which Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific are religiously diverse and the ways this diversity has been managed are not. This book addresses this lack of information about one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world. It describes the religious diversity of 27 nations, as large and complex as Indonesia and as small as Tuvalu, outlining the current issues and the basic policy approaches to religious diversity. Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands are portrayed as a living laboratory of various religious blends, with a wide variance of histories and many different approaches to managing religious diversity. While interesting in their own right, a study of these nations provides a wealth of case studies of diversity management – most of them stories of success and inclusion.
Author: Andrew C. Willford
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1501719483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in Spirited Politics throw light on predicaments that spring from the intersection of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in contemporary Southeast Asian public life. Covering material from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the contributors explore the calamities and ironies of Southeast Asian identity politics, examining the ways in which religion and politics are made to serve each other.
Author: Yoshinori Takeuchi
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780824514525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the world's leading figures of the Kyoto School of philosophy leads an eminent group of spiritual studies scholars in this first volume in Crossroad's series of books on world spirituality. "Explores the twin cores of Buddhist spirituality--meditation and emptiness".--ALA Booklist.
Author: Amitav Acharya
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0801466342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.
Author: Sam Han
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1317580168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book critically analyses the functions and interconnectedness between religion and digital media in a range of East Asian countries. It discusses both how religious organizations make use of new technologies, and also explores how new technologies are reshaping religion in novel and interesting ways. Based on extensive research, the book focuses in particular on Christianity in South Korea, Neo-Shintoism in Japan, Falun Gong in China and Islam in Southeast Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on a broad range of media practices including video gaming, virtual worship, social networking and online testimonials, the book also investigates the idea that use of technology in itself mirrors religious practices. With an analysis of the impact of religion and new technology on national consciousness in a range of geographical locations, the authors offer a broadening of the scope of the study of religion, culture and media.
