The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond

1. Introduction: Local Traditions and World Religions. Encountering ‘Religion’ in Southeast Asia and Melanesia
Michel Picard

2. About Buddhist Burma: Thathana, or ‘Religion’ as Social Space
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

3. The (Re)configuration of the Buddhist Field in Post-Communist Cambodia
Anne Yvonne Guillou

4. Re-connecting the Ancestors. Buddhism and Animism on the Boloven Plateau, Laos
Guido Sprenger

5. Balinese Religion in the Making: An Enquiry About the Interpretation of Agama Hindu as ‘Hinduism’
Michel Picard

6. Return to the Source: A Balinese Pilgrimage to India and the Re-Enchantment of Agama Hindu in Global Modernity
Annette Hornbacher

7. A Wall, Even in Those Days! Encounters with Religions and What Became of the Tradition
Cécile Barraud

8. Encounters with Christianity in the North Moluccas (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
Jos. D. M. Platenkamp

9. Continuity and Breaches in Religion and Globalization, a Melanesian Point of View
André Iteanu

Nyckelord: Religious Studies, Religion and Society, Sociology of Religion, History of Southeast Asia, Asian Politics