Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /
"'The world today is as furiously religious as it ever was.' This quote from Peter Berger now appears to be undisputed in the contemporary social and cultural sciences. A look around the globe reveals that modernization does not necessarily lead to a decline of religion, neither in so...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Series: | Asian anthropologies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : multivocal arenas of modern enchantment in Southeast Asia / Kirsten W. Endres and Andrea Lauser
- Can things reach the dead? : the ontological status of objects and the study of Lao Buddhist rituals for the spirits of the deceased / Patrice Ladwig
- Spirited warriors : conspiracy and protection on Lombok / Kari Telle
- From the mystical to the molecular : modernity, martial arts and agency in Java / Lee Wilson
- Changing spirits' identities? : rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet
- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall
- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. Endres and Andrea Lauser
- Trans-ethnic cosmologies that won't go away : keramat symbolisms in Malaysian capitalist sacralization / Beng-Lan Goh
- Being a spirit medium in contemporary Burma / B�en�edicte Brac de la Perri�ere
- Reconfigurations of the manora ancestral worship and spirit possession in southern Thailand / Alexander Horstmann
- The horror of the modern : violation, violence, and the rampage of urban youths in the contemporary Thai ghost films / Pattana Kitiarsa.