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Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia
Av Jip Lensink
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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In the southeast of Indonesia, on the Moluccas, theologians are developing contextual theologies for the Moluccan Protestant church. The Moluccas were colonized by the Dutch for more than three centuries. As an effort of religious decolonization, Moluccan theologians aim to better connect …
Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan
Awakening the World
Av Scott Pacey
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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After the Communist victory in China's civil war, Taiwan, then governed by the KMT (or Nationalist Party), became a focal point for both Buddhist and Christian activity in the Chinese world. Focusing on some of the most influential monastics of the time, this study considers Buddhist responses to …
Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia
Av Lee Ooi Tan
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia tells the story of how a minority community comes to grips with the challenges of modernity, history, globalization, and cultural assertion in an ever-changing Malaysia. It captures the religious connection, transformation, and tension …
Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts
Av Shin-yi Chao
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in …
Fatwa in Indonesia
An Analysis of Dominant Legal Ideas and Mode of Thought of Fatwa-Making Agencies and Their Implications in the Post-New Order Period
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto. It is an in-depth exploration of three fatwa-making agencies-Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Lajnah Bahth al-Masail Nahdlatul Ulama, and Majelis Tarjih Muhammadiyah-all of which are highly influential in …
Islam in a Secular State
Muslim Activism in Singapore
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The overtly secular state of Singapore has unapologetically maintained an interventionist approach to governance in the realm of religion. Islam is particularly managed by the state. Muslim activists thus have to meticulously navigate these realities – in addition to being a minority community – in …
Pathways to Contemporary Islam
New Trends in Critical Engagement
Av Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that …
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, but he also goes …
Biography of a God
Mahasu in the Himalayas
Av Asaf Sharabi
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Like other deities in the Western Himalayas, they are regarded as royal gods who rule over territories and people. This book traces changes in faith and practices …
Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951-2013
Islamism in a Mottled Nation
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is …
Power of the Nath Yogis
Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority
Av Daniela Bevilacqua, Eloisa Stuparich
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of self reinterpretation in the sampradaya’s interaction with different social milieus. The leitmotif tying together the selection of articles is the authors’ …
State, Ulama and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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The Suharto (1966-98) government of Indonesia and the Mahathir (1981-2003) government of Malaysia both launched Islamisation programmes, upgrading and creating religious institutions. The author argues that, while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they …
Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka
An Interdisciplinary Study
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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For more than three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independence against the majoritarian Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka. Even as the government fought LTTE on the battlefield, it also pursued a legal war through the enactment of counterterrorism …
Customising Islamic Law
Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean
Inbunden, 2026
2512 kr
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Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have historically followed a matrilineal system, where women had better economic and social stability and an upper hand in their personal choices. The system raised serious questions as the Islamic legal tradition evolved in the Middle East, …
Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951-2013
Islamism in a Mottled Nation
Inbunden, 2014
2133 kr
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A historical recount on the development of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS and how it rose to become the most prominent Islamist party in Southeast Asia.
Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka
An Interdisciplinary Study
Inbunden, 2017
2133 kr
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This book applies theoretical insights from the work of philosophers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Foucault to the Sri Lankan context to examine the conflicting narratives relating to the counter-terrorism laws produced by both sides in the conflict.
Fatwa in Indonesia
An Analysis of Dominant Legal Ideas and Mode of Thought of Fatwa-Making Agencies and Their Implications in the Post-New Order Period
Inbunden, 2017
2311 kr
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An exploration of fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto. An exploration of three fatwa-making agencies-Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Lajnah Bahth al-Masail Nahdlatul Ulama, and Majelis Tarjih Muhammadiyah-all of which are highly influential in shaping religious …
State, Ulama and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia
Inbunden, 2017
2133 kr
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This author of this book argues that while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in ŸcapturingŒ the state by influencing policies in their favour.
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Pathways to Contemporary Islam
New Trends in Critical Engagement
Av Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
Inbunden, 2020
2133 kr
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This book highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity.
Power of the Nath Yogis
Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority
Av Daniela Bevilacqua, Eloisa Stuparich
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting important moments of self.reinterpretation in the sampradaya's interaction with different social milieus.
Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts
Av Shin-yi Chao
Inbunden, 2023
2133 kr
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This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in …
Islam in a Secular State
Muslim Activism in Singapore
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore analyses the following categories of Muslim activists: Islamic religious scholars ( ulama ), liberal Muslims, and the more conservative-minded individuals.
Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan
Awakening the World
Av Scott Pacey
Inbunden, 2020
2133 kr
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This book will be of interest to historians of Buddhism, Chinese religion and Taiwanese society, and to those with an interest in interfaith dialogue more generally.
Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia
Av Lee Ooi Tan
Inbunden, 2020
2133 kr
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This book tells the story of how a minority community comes to grips with the challenges of modernity, history, globalization, and cultural assertion in an ever-changing Malaysia.
Biography of a God
Mahasu in the Himalayas
Av Asaf Sharabi
Inbunden, 2023
2133 kr
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Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Like other deities in the Western Himalayas, they are regarded as royal gods who rule over territories and people. This book traces changes in faith and practices …
Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia
Av Jip Lensink
Inbunden, 2025
2133 kr
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In the book, the author asks how traditional music, as framed within contextual Moluccan theology, is interrelated with lived religion.
