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Spirited Politics : Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia /

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 ir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: George, Kenneth M., 1950-, Willford, Andrew C. (Andrew Clinton)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Religion, the nation, and the predicaments of public life in Southeast Asia / Kenneth M. George and Andrew C. Willford
  • The priestess and the politician : enunciating Filipino cultural nationalism through Mt. Banahaw / Smita Lahiri
  • The modernist vision from below : Malaysian Hinduism and the "way of prayers" / Andrew C. Willford
  • Fraudulent and dangerous popular religiosity in the public sphere : moral campaigns to prohibit, reform, and demystify Thai spirit mediums / Erick White
  • Islam and gender politics in late New Order Indonesia / Suzanne Brenner
  • A sixth religion? : Confucianism and the negotiation of Indonesian-Chinese identity under the Pancasila state / Andrew J. Abalahin
  • Relocating reciprocity : politics and the transformation of Thai funerals / Thamora Fishel
  • Immaterial culture : "idolatry" in the lowland Philippines / Fenella Cannell
  • Picturing Aceh : violence, religion, and a painter's tale / Kenneth M. George.