This paper argues that there is a changing trend of Islamization in Malaysia, triggered by a new form of Islam which is dependent on a bureaucratic authority. This is quite different from the pre-1990s situation when contestation over the “right” Islam was fought among a plethora of contenders, ranging from Malay political parties to Islamic …
This discussion of state and religion in Dai Viet focuses on ritual in the royal courts and how it is related to the varied beliefs of royalty, aristocracy, the literate, and the people. From the tenth to the nineteenth century, in the series of dynasties, each showed a different pattern of religious belief and ritual. …
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The relationship between religion and the state during the pre-colonial period was the most dominant one in Burmese society for at least a thousand years if not more. With the dawn of the colonial period, it saw a hiatus, but revived when nationalism took center stage. After independence in 1948, the relationship once again became …
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The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body, not least thanks to Michel Foucault’s historical studies of medicine in the 1970s, which inspired the initial development of the contemporary study of the human body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused …
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects – new …
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In January 2007 the site of an ancient pottery kiln on Phnom Kulen was excavated. Radiocarbon dating shows that the site probably dates from the 11th century CE, around the time of King Suryavarman I. This report describes the excavation, analyzes the kiln, and provides a detailed typology of the pottery and the technology used …
Indonesia has been haunted by the ‘spectre of communism’ since the action by military officers on 1 October 1965 in which the country’s top brass was murdered. The military attributed this ‘putsch’ to the communist party, PKI. The genocide that followed was triggered by an unprecedented campaign of sexual slander. Surprisingly this effective method of …
The hybridization of Bhangra, a Punjabi harvest dance, with Western beats of pop and black beats of reggae, rap and hiphop in Britain in the mid 1980s brought it international visibility and has made it part of global youth culture. However, purists on the Indian subcontinent, particularly in Punjab, offended by the ‘vulgar’ content of …
In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals.Asian Ethnicityprovides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched …
