Faith in the Future
Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia
Edited by Thomas A. Reuter, University of Melbourne and Alexander Horstmann, Mahidol University
Status:
€96.00$133.00
Biographical note
Thomas A. Reuter, Ph.D. (1996), Australian National University, is a Professor at the Asian Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is the Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, and has published eight books including Custodians of the Sacred Mountains, Hawaii, 2002.
Alexander Horstmann, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bielefeld, is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at RILCA, Mahidol University and Senior Research Partner at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is co-editor of the journal Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, and has published four books and numerous articles in international journals.
Alexander Horstmann, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bielefeld, is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at RILCA, Mahidol University and Senior Research Partner at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is co-editor of the journal Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, and has published four books and numerous articles in international journals.
Readership
All interested in contemporary Asian societies, the impact of globalisation, and the relationship between religious movements and societal change.
Table of contents
1. Religious and Cultural Revitalization: A Post-Modern Phenomenon? - Thomas Reuter and Alexander Horstmann
2. An Ancient Temple and a New King: Revitalisation, Ritual and Politics in the Highlands of Bali - Thomas Reuter
3. Cultural Solutions to Religious Conflicts? The Revival of Tradition in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia - Birgit Bräuchler
4. Negotiating Charisma: The Social Dimension of Philippine Crucifixion Rituals - Peter Bräunlein
5. Performing Multi-Religious Ritual in Southern Thailand: Polyphony, Contestation, and Transgression - Alexander Horstmann
6. A Mood of Crisis: Balinese Ritual Culture Between Creolization and Criticism - Annette Hornbacher
7. Climate Change and Religion in Southeast Asia: Steps Towards Evolutionary Learning - Arthur Saniotis
8. Invisible Blood: Ritual as Information Processing in Laos - Guido Sprenger
9. Khmer Spirits, Chinese Bodies: Chinese Spirit Mediums and Spirit Possession Rituals in Contemporary Cambodia - Erik W. Davis
10. Modernist Islam and Agricultural Rituals in Buton - Blair Palmer
11. Spirits and Citizens: The Politics of Religious Difference in Indonesia - Daromir Rudnyckyj
12. God is the Greatest: Multiple Forms of Muslim Religiosity in Peninsular Malaysia - Gerhard Hoffstaedter
13. Fire and Water: Ritual Innovation, Tourism, and Spontaneous Religiosity in Hat Yai, Southern Thailand - Jovan Maud
14. From Party Bureaucrat to Ritual Expert: The Role of the Officiator in Chinese Funeral Ceremonies - Shaoming Zhou
Index
2. An Ancient Temple and a New King: Revitalisation, Ritual and Politics in the Highlands of Bali - Thomas Reuter
3. Cultural Solutions to Religious Conflicts? The Revival of Tradition in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia - Birgit Bräuchler
4. Negotiating Charisma: The Social Dimension of Philippine Crucifixion Rituals - Peter Bräunlein
5. Performing Multi-Religious Ritual in Southern Thailand: Polyphony, Contestation, and Transgression - Alexander Horstmann
6. A Mood of Crisis: Balinese Ritual Culture Between Creolization and Criticism - Annette Hornbacher
7. Climate Change and Religion in Southeast Asia: Steps Towards Evolutionary Learning - Arthur Saniotis
8. Invisible Blood: Ritual as Information Processing in Laos - Guido Sprenger
9. Khmer Spirits, Chinese Bodies: Chinese Spirit Mediums and Spirit Possession Rituals in Contemporary Cambodia - Erik W. Davis
10. Modernist Islam and Agricultural Rituals in Buton - Blair Palmer
11. Spirits and Citizens: The Politics of Religious Difference in Indonesia - Daromir Rudnyckyj
12. God is the Greatest: Multiple Forms of Muslim Religiosity in Peninsular Malaysia - Gerhard Hoffstaedter
13. Fire and Water: Ritual Innovation, Tourism, and Spontaneous Religiosity in Hat Yai, Southern Thailand - Jovan Maud
14. From Party Bureaucrat to Ritual Expert: The Role of the Officiator in Chinese Funeral Ceremonies - Shaoming Zhou
Index
€115.00$150.00
Asia in the Making of Christianity studies the experience of converts from fifteen locations throughout Asia, using a variety of approaches to examine the meaning of becoming Christian. The book addresses and assesses models under debate for understanding religious conversion.
€120.00$164.00
Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migration impacts issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identity transformations; and gender relation in Central Asia.
€83.00$115.00
In Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma, Kawanami offers a detailed account of how Buddhist nuns build their monastic community through fostering scriptural education and engaging in religious activities devoted to the dissemination of the Buddha's teaching.
€77.00$100.00
This book analyzes the reception of artisanal pizza in Japan through the lens of professional pizza chefs. The movement of food and workers, and the impact that such movements have on the artisanal workers occupation are at issue.
€89.00$115.00
Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book offers a comprehensive analysis on the interactions between religion and technology, thereby elucidating the complex relationships between spirituality, social and identity formation, sovereignty ...
€117.00$152.00
Considering seminal sources of doctrine, literary expressions of practice and colonial records of reform, this book challenges dominant perspectives on South Asian Muslim society between 1526-1947, and offers an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.
- 1 of 4
- ››
No additional information