Religion, place, and modernity : spatial articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia / edited by Michael Dickhardt, Andrea Lauser.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Religion, Place and Modernity in Southeast and East Asia: Reflections on the Spatial Articulation of Religion with Modernity /​ Michael Dickhardt
pt. 1 Spatialization of Concepts and Agendas of Modernization
2.Civilization, Progress, and the `Foul Stench of Religion': The Concepts of `Religion' and `Superstition' in the Politics of Modern East Asia /​ Nikolas Broy
3.Religious Pluralism as a Modem Political Project: The Relevance of Space in Contemporary India, Indonesia, and Singapore /​ Clemens Six
4.Religious Place Making: Civilized Modernity and the Spread of Buddhism among the Cheng, a Mon-Khmer Minority in Southern Laos /​ Patrice Ladwig
5.Constructing Modern Zen Spaces in Vietnam /​ Alexander Soucy
pt. 2 Sacralization of Places and Spaces in Contexts of Modern Pluralism and Fragmentations
6.Pilgrimage between Religious Resurgence, Cultural Nationalism and Touristic Heritage in Contemporary Vietnam /​ Andrea Lauser
Contents note continued: 7.Religious Praxis, Modernity and Non-modernity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia /​ Yeoh Seng-Guan
8.In Search of Holy Water: Hindu Pilgrimage to Gunung Rinjani on Lombok, Indonesia, as a Multi-religious Site /​ Volker Gottowik
pt. 3 Giving Space to Religion within Spaces of Modernity
9.New Routes for the Venerable Ancestor: A Growth Triangle, the Border, and an Emergent Sacred Landscape in the Thai-Malay Borderland /​ Jovan Maud
10.Vision and Religious Space under Transformation in the Perception of the Nineteenth-century Siamese Elites /​ Sing Suwannakij
11.The `Ghost Room': Space, Death and Ritual in Vietnam /​ Paul Sorrentino
12.Where to Die? Death Management and the Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong /​ Chan Yuk Wah.