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Indonesia has experienced a quick succession of new governments and fundamental reforms since the collapse of Suharto's dictatorial regime in 1998. Established patterns in the distribution of wealth, power and knowledge have been disrupted, altered and re-asserted. The contributors to this volume have taken the unique opportunity this upheaval presents to uncover social tensions and fault lines in this society. Focusing in particular on disadvantaged sectors of Balinese society, the contributors describe how the effects of a national economic and political crisis combined with a variety of social aspirations at a grass roots level to elicit shifts in local and regional configurations of power and knowledge. This is the first time that many of them have been able to disseminate their controversial research findings without endangering their informants since the demise of the New Order regime. eBook available with sample pages: 0203401913
Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell
over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various
ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious
ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity
deals with the magic in and of modernity and asks about its current
significance for the dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia.
Drawing on recent ethnographic research in this area, the
contributors to this wide-ranging volume demonstrate how religious
concepts contribute to meeting the challenges of modernity. Against
this background, religion and modernity are no longer perceived as
in contradiction; rather, it is argued that a revision of the
western notion of religion is required to understand the complexity
of 'multiple modernities' in a globalised world.. Dynamics of
Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity is part of the
series Global Asia, published by Amsterdam University Press (AUP)
in close collaboration with the International Institute for Asian
Studies (IIAS)
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