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The appropriation of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond / Michel Picard, editor.

Contributor(s): Picard, Michel [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xi, 285 pages : Illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319562292; 3319562290Subject(s): Religion and politics -- Southeast AsiaBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Local traditions and world religions. Encountering 'religion' in Southeast Asia and Melanesia / Michel Picard -- About Buddhist Burma : Thathana, or 'religion' as social space / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière -- The (re)configuration of the Buddhist field in post-Communist Cambodia / Anne Yvonne Guillou -- Re-connecting the ancestors. Buddhism and Animism on the Boloven Plateau, Laos / Guido Sprenger -- Balinese religion in the making : an enquiry about the interpretation of Agama Hindu as 'Hinduism' / Michel Picard -- Return to the source : a Balinese pilgrimage to India and the re-enchantment of Agama Hindu in global modernity / Annette Hornbacher -- A wall, even in those days! encounters with religions and what became of the tradition / Cécile Barraud -- Encounters with Christianity in the North Moluccas (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Jos. D. M. Platenkamp -- Continuity and breaches in religion and globalization, a Melanesian point of view / André Iteanu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Local traditions and world religions. Encountering 'religion' in Southeast Asia and Melanesia / Michel Picard -- About Buddhist Burma : Thathana, or 'religion' as social space / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière -- The (re)configuration of the Buddhist field in post-Communist Cambodia / Anne Yvonne Guillou -- Re-connecting the ancestors. Buddhism and Animism on the Boloven Plateau, Laos / Guido Sprenger -- Balinese religion in the making : an enquiry about the interpretation of Agama Hindu as 'Hinduism' / Michel Picard -- Return to the source : a Balinese pilgrimage to India and the re-enchantment of Agama Hindu in global modernity / Annette Hornbacher -- A wall, even in those days! encounters with religions and what became of the tradition / Cécile Barraud -- Encounters with Christianity in the North Moluccas (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Jos. D. M. Platenkamp -- Continuity and breaches in religion and globalization, a Melanesian point of view / André Iteanu.

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