Popular Religion in Southeast Asia
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- 2015
Summary
In this overview of popular religion in Southeast Asia, Robert L. Winzeler offers an interpretative look at the nature of today’s indigenous religious traditions as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity and conversion. He focuses not on religion as it exists in books, doctrine, theology, and among elites and dominant institutions but rather in the lives, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people.
Popular Religion in Southeast Asia employs a broad view of religion as involving not just the usual Western notions of faith but also supernatural belief in general, magic, sorcery, and practical concerns such as healing, personal protection, and success in business. Case studies and concrete examples flesh out the discussion, demonstrating how popular religion relates to historical and contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic developments in the region.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2015
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-2440-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-2441-7
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 309
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
- 2 The Development of Religion in Southeast Asia No access Pages 23 - 54
- 3 Three Versions of Popular Hinduism No access Pages 55 - 86
- 4 Buddhism and Popular Religion No access Pages 87 - 124
- 5 Popular Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia No access Pages 125 - 168
- 6 Conversion and Popular Christianity No access Pages 169 - 202
- 7 The Magic of the Market No access Pages 203 - 236
- 8 Religious Movements as Popular Religion No access Pages 237 - 264
- 9 Popular Religion in Southeast Asia No access Pages 265 - 270
- Notes No access Pages 271 - 288
- Bibliography No access Pages 289 - 300
- Index No access Pages 301 - 308
- About the Author No access Pages 309 - 309





