Religion, place and modernity : spatial articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia

✍ Scribed by Andrea Lauser (editor); Michael Dickhardt (editor)

• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Series: Social sciences in Asia,
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
About the Contributors
Chapter 1 Religion, Place and Modernity in Southeast and East Asia: Reflections on the Spatial Articulation of Religion with Modernity
Part 1 Spatialization of Concepts and Agendas of Modernization
Chapter 2 Civilization, Progress, and the ‘Foul Stench of Religion’: The Concepts of ‘Religion’ and ‘Superstition’ in the Politics of Modern East Asia
Chapter 3 Religious Pluralism as a Modern Political Project: The Relevance of Space in Contemporary India, Indonesia, and Singapore
Chapter 4 Religious Place Making: Civilized Modernity and the Spread of Buddhism among the Cheng, a Mon-Khmer Minority in Southern Laos
Chapter 5 Constructing Modern Zen Spaces in Vietnam
Part 2 Sacralization of Places and Spaces in Contexts of Modern Pluralism and Fragmentations
Chapter 6 Pilgrimage between Religious Resurgence, Cultural Nationalism and Touristic Heritage in Contemporary Vietnam
Chapter 7 Religious Praxis, Modernity and Non-modernity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Chapter 8 In Search of Holy Water: Hindu Pilgrimage to Gunung Rinjani on Lombok, Indonesia, as a Multi-religious Site
Part 3 Giving Space to Religion within Spaces of Modernity
Chapter 9 New Routes for the Venerable Ancestor: A Growth Triangle, the Border, and an Emergent Sacred Landscape in the Thai-Malay Borderland
Chapter 10 Vision and Religious Space under Transformation in the Perception of the Nineteenth-century Siamese Elites
Chapter 11 The ‘Ghost Room’: Space, Death and Ritual in Vietnam
Chapter 12 Where to Die? Death Management and the Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong
Index