The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond
This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend
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Michel Picard
The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond
The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Michel Picard Editor
The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Editor Michel Picard Centre Asie du Sud-Est, CNRS-EHESS French National Centre for Scientific Research Paris, France
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Acknowledgements
This collection of essays originates in a collaborative research project titled ‘Local Traditions and World Religions: The Appropriation of “Religion” in Southeast Asia and Beyond’, jointly funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), that ran from January 2011 to June 2014. Combining anthropological and historical approaches with philology and political science, the participants to this research—placed under the leadership of Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Annette Hornbacher— aimed to investigate contemporary religious politics in Southeast Asia and Melanesia by framing it in long-term perspectives. In the course of regular meetings in Paris and Heidelberg, they confronted their analyses of the localization of world religions occurring dialogically with the universalization of local traditions in their respective fields of investigation. While these issues are commonly framed in terms of relations between
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