Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia

Magic and Modernity

Volker Gottowik (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

338 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-17838-5 (ISBN)

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The book casts new light on the relation between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.

Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of modernity and asks about its current significance for the dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia. Drawing on recent ethnographic research in this area, the contributors to this wide-ranging volume demonstrate how religious concepts contribute to meeting the challenges of modernity. Against this background, religion and modernity are no longer perceived as in contradiction; rather, it is argued that a revision of the western notion of religion is required to understand the complexity of 'multiple modernities' in a globalised world..Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity is part of the series Global Asia, in close collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).

Volker Gottowik is postdoctoral researcher in the area studies network ‘Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia’ (DORISEA) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Heidelberg.

Preface, Introduction, Modern Spirits, Modern Muslims, Modern Traditions, Notes on Contributors, Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Global Asia
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-041-17838-7 / 1041178387
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17838-5 / 9781041178385
Zustand	Neuware