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 ironies of Southeast Asian identity politics, examining the ways in which religion and politics are made to serve each other
eBook, English, ©2005
Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., ©2005
Studies on Southeast Asia, no. 38
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1 online resource (210 pages)
9781501719486, 1501719483
648589943
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
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