Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. PREFACE VII
4. INTRODUCTION. Contested Visions of Community in East and Southeast Asia 1
5. PART I STATE AUTHORITY AND RELIGION
6. 1 The Universal and the Particular in the Rites of Hiroshima 17
7. 2 Communist Revolution and the Buddhist Past in Cambodia 43
8. 3 Reimagined Community. A Social History of Muslim Education in Pasuruan, East Java 75
9. PART II RESHAPING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
10. 4 Religion and Ethnic Politics in Malaysia The Significance of the Islamic Resurgence Phenomenon 97
11. 5 Historical Allusion and the Defense of Identity Malaysian Chinese Popular Religion 117
12. 6 Capitalism, Community, and the Rise of Amoral Cults in Taiwan 141
13. 7 A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents. Of Weddings, Bureaucrats, and Morality in the Republic of Korea 165
14. PART III MODES OF RESISTANCE
15. 8 Rituals of Resistance. The Manipulation of Shamanism in Contemporary Korea 193
16. 9 The Politics of Ritual Displacement 221
17. 10 Salman Rushdie in China. Religion, Ethnicity, and State Definition in the People's Republic 255
18. 11 Hijab and Moments of Legitimation. Islamic Resurgence in Thai Society 279
19. EPILOGUE
20. Defying Disenchantment. Reflections on Ritual, Power, and History 301
21. Works Cited 315
22. Contributors 349
23. Index 353