Religion, place and modernity : : spatial articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia / / edited by Michael Dickhardt, Andrea Lauser.
Using the potential of place as an approach and of places as ethnographic contexts, the authors in this volume investigate the multiple entanglements of ‘religion’ and ‘modernity’ in contemporary settings. The guiding questions of such an approach are: How are modernity and religion spatially articu...
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| Superior document: | Social Sciences in Asia, Volume 40 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia ;
Volume 40. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Religion, Place and Modernity in Southeast and East Asia: Reflections on the Spatial Articulation of Religion with Modernity / Michael Dickhardt
- 2 Civilization, Progress, and the ‘Foul Stench of Religion’: The Concepts of ‘Religion’ and ‘Superstition’ in the Politics of Modern East Asia / Nikolas Broy
- 3 Religious Pluralism as a Modern Political Project: The Relevance of Space in Contemporary India, Indonesia, and Singapore / Clemens Six
- 4 Religious Place Making: Civilized Modernity and the Spread of Buddhism among the Cheng, a Mon-Khmer Minority in Southern Laos / Patrice Ladwig
- 5 Constructing Modern Zen Spaces in Vietnam / Alexander Soucy
- 6 Pilgrimage between Religious Resurgence, Cultural Nationalism and Touristic Heritage in Contemporary Vietnam / Andrea Lauser
- 7 Religious Praxis, Modernity and Non-modernity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Yeoh Seng-Guan
- 8 In Search of Holy Water: Hindu Pilgrimage to Gunung Rinjani on Lombok, Indonesia, as a Multi-religious Site / Volker Gottowik
- 9 New Routes for the Venerable Ancestor: A Growth Triangle, the Border, and an Emergent Sacred Landscape in the Thai-Malay Borderland / Jovan Maud
- 10 Vision and Religious Space under Transformation in the Perception of the Nineteenth-century Siamese Elites / Sing Suwannakij
- 11 The ‘Ghost Room’: Space, Death and Ritual in Vietnam / Paul Sorrentino
- 12 Where to Die? Death Management and the Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong / Chan Yuk Wah
- Index.