The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of
northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised
Mahayana Buddhism and later Islam, but when Geoffrey Benjamin began
his fieldwork in 1964, the Temiar practised a localised and
unexportable animistic religion. Over a period of nearly 50 years
he has followed the Temiar community, witnessing a series of
changes that have seen them become ever more embedded in broader
Malaysian society. Benjamin's work traces a process of religious
enchantment, disenchantment and re-enchantment, as the Temiars
reacted in various ways to Baha'i, Islam and Christianity,
including developing their own new religion. In a text enriched by
detailed ethnographic reportage, Benjamin draws on the Temiar
experience to set out a novel theory of religion, and to explore
the changing intellectual framework of anthropology over the past
half-century.
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