Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction: Religion, Tradition and the Popular in Asia and Europe 7
4. Part I: Histories and Concepts of Popular(ised) Religions
5. The Communicative Construction of Transcendence: a New Approach to Popular Religion 29
6. Religion in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Synthesising Global and Local 51
7. Who Defines “the Popular”? Post-colonial Discourses on National Identity and Popular Christianity in the Philippines 75
8. Part II: Popular(ised) Religions in Asia
9. Concepts of (Protestant) Christian Identity in Chinese Microblogs 115
10. The Cinematic Contest of Popular Post-Islam ism 139
11. Popularisation of Religious Traditions in Indonesia – Historical Communication of a Chinese Indonesian Place of Worship 157
12. Translating Traditions and Transcendence: Popularised Religiosity and the Paranormal Practitioners’ Position in Indonesia 185
13. Part III: Popular(ised) Religions in Europe
14. A Sprout of Doubt. The Debate on the Medium’s Agency in Mediumism, Media Studies, and Anthropology 205
15. “Tomorrow, Christ on the Cross Will be Selling Socks”. References to Christianity in Contemporary Advertising Campaigns 225
16. Germanic Neo-Paganism – A Nordic Art-Religion? 243
17. Neo-pagan Traditions in the 21st Century: Re-inventing Polytheism in a Polyvalent World-Culture 261
18. List of Contributors 283