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The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Michel Picard

    1. Centre Asie du Sud-Est, CNRS-EHESS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France

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  • Combines anthropological and historical approaches with philology and political science
  • Contains case studies based on local research
  • Uses both theoretical and empirical data
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Local Traditions and World Religions. Encountering ‘Religion’ in Southeast Asia and Melanesia

    • Michel Picard
    Pages 1-38

  3. About Buddhist Burma: Thathana, or ‘Religion’ as Social Space

    • Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
    Pages 39-66

  4. The (Re)configuration of the Buddhist Field in Post-Communist Cambodia

    • Anne Yvonne Guillou
    Pages 67-93

  5. Re-connecting the Ancestors. Buddhism and Animism on the Boloven Plateau, Laos

    • Guido Sprenger
    Pages 95-121

  6. Balinese Religion in the Making: An Enquiry About the Interpretation of Agama Hindu as ‘Hinduism’

    • Michel Picard
    Pages 123-152

  7. Return to the Source: A Balinese Pilgrimage to India and the Re-Enchantment of Agama Hindu in Global Modernity

    • Annette Hornbacher
    Pages 153-183

  8. A Wall, Even in Those Days! Encounters with Religions and What Became of the Tradition

    • Cécile Barraud
    Pages 185-215

  9. Encounters with Christianity in the North Moluccas (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)

    • Jos. D. M. Platenkamp
    Pages 217-249

  10. Continuity and Breaches in Religion and Globalization, a Melanesian Point of View

    • André Iteanu
    Pages 251-277

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 279-285
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About this book

This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend to press their populations to have a ‘religion,' claiming that their local, indigenous practices and traditions do not constitute religion. Authors analyze this ‘religionization,’ addressing how local people appropriate religion as a category to define some of their practices as differentiated from others, whether they want to have a religion or are constrained to demonstrate that they profess one. Thus, ‘religion’ is what is regarded as such by these local actors, which might not correspond to what counts as religion for the observer. Furthermore, local actors do not always concur regarding what their religion is about, as religion is a contested issue. In consequence, each of the case studies in this volume purposes to elucidatewhat gets identified and legitimized as ‘religion’, by whom, for what purpose, and under what political conditions.

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“The Volume provides a range of ethnographic case studies that – together with Michel Picard’s insightful introduction – contribute new perspectives to the study of religion in the Southeast Asia-Pacific region, and, more generally, to the anthropology of religion. … The volume is thus a strong reminder, not just for anthropologists of Southeast Asia but also for scholars and students of other disciplines and regions, that it is necessary to deconstruct and historicize the categories in which we have come to think.” (Kirsten W. Endres, SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 34 (1), March 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre Asie du Sud-Est, CNRS-EHESS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France

    Michel Picard

About the editor

Michel Picard is a retired senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a founding member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (“Centre Asie du Sud-Est”, CNRS-EHESS) in Paris. An anthropologist by training, he has published extensively in the field of Balinese studies, specifically on tourism, culture, identity, ethnicity and religion. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond

  • Editors: Michel Picard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56230-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56229-2Published: 24 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85860-9Published: 03 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56230-8Published: 11 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 285

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion, History of Southeast Asia, Asian Politics

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