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- Foxeus, Niklas
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Performing the Nation in Myanmar : Buddhist Nationalist Rituals and Boundary-Making
- 2022
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 178:2-3, s. 272-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, Buddhist nationalist movements in Myanmar started to emerge, disseminating a Buddhist nationalist discourse that aimed to protectively demarcate their nation from the perceived threat posed by Muslims. In sermons, monks exhorted their audiences to make nationalist vows to protect their nation, country, and Buddhism. The aim of this article is to investigate some ritual, discursive, and performative aspects of Buddhist nationalist sermons, and the social dynamics they entailed. The article first examines and analyses three recurrent discursive complexes of the Buddhist nationalist sermons delivered in 2013–2015; it will also look at how the monks drew on their social power and on discursive and performative power to create a boundary around their Buddhist nation and to mobilize Buddhists to protect it, thereby performing their nation. Second, the article examines two ways in which sermons that aimed to protect the Buddha’s dispensation (collectivistic religion) contributed to creating social cohesion and community.
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- Habibi, Zaki
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Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia. Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture, by Leonie Schmidt
- 2018
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Ingår i: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 174:4, s. 538-541
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia, Leonie Schmidt provides a thorough analysis of contemporary Islamic-themed popular and visual cultures, mainly in Indonesia. This book is an essential read for those who wish to understand multiple modernities unfolding in post-1998 Indonesia (the Reformasi era). By using the term Islamic, she refers to any ‘cultural practices that are considered bernafaskan Islam (“to breath Islam”), which means that these cultural forms are inspired by Islam or that they connote Islam thematically’ (p. 5). This book focuses on the intersection between modernity, Islam, identity, and popular and visual cultures in contemporary Indonesia.
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- Kent, Alexandra, 1958
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Forest of Struggle. Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia, written by Eve Zucker
- 2015
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294. ; 171:1, s. 151-153
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Eve Zucker’s monograph Forest of Struggle builds on an ethnographic study conducted a decade ago in a village in the Cardamom Mountains of Southwestern Cambodia. The author is interested in the relationship between social memory, violence, trauma, and morality, and asks broadly how communities manage painful memories and come together again after violent conflict to rebuild their community. She explores the thirty years after 1970, during which Khmer Rouge forces were based in the region.
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