The spirit of things : materiality and religious diversity in Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 58.
Other Authors: Bautista, Julius
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2012.
Series:Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 58.
Subjects:
Religious pluralism > Southeast Asia.
Religious articles > Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia > Religion.
Physical Description:x, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface : motion, devotion, and materiality in Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista
  • Introduction : materiality in a problematically plural Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista and Anthony Reid
  • Icon, iconoclasm, art commodity : are objects still agents in Vietnam? / Laurel Kendall, Vũ Thị Thanh Tâm, and Nguyêʼn Thị Thu Hương
  • Of Proton, Mercedes, and MPVs : car culture among middle-class Malays in suburban Malaysia / Johan Fischer
  • A spirit medium as architect : Caodaism's visual theology / Janet Hoskins
  • Material religion and ethnic identity : Buddhist visual culture and the Burmanization of the eastern Shan state / Klemens Karlsson
  • Holy water and material religion in a pilgrimage shrine in Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan
  • "The land of the great image" and the test of time : the making of Buddha images in Arakan (Burma/Myanmar) / Alexandra de Mersan
  • The problem with "empty crosses" : thinking through materiality in Bidayuh religious practices / Liana Chua
  • Dressing for modern war in old-fashioned magic : traditional protective charms of Thailand's forces in the Vietnam War / Richard A. Ruth
  • Concentrating people and endogenous potency at the Southeast Asian periphery : the case of the longan house altar of the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo / Kenneth Sillander
  • Becoming active/active becoming : Prince Vessantara scrolls and the creation of a moral community / Sandra Cate and Leedom Lefferts
  • The potency of poon : religious sculpture, performativity, and the Mahal na Senyor of Lucban / Cecilia De La Paz
  • Bodies for the gods : image worship in Chinese popular religion / Margaret Chan.