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1. Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

   Edited by Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-61672-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Anthropology of Islam Reader

   By Jens Kreinath

   This Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches involved in, and relevant to, the emerging field of Anthropology of Islam. It pays particular attention to the study of ethnographic cases, featuring various forms of Islam as practiced in...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-78025-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Diaspora and Citizenship

   Edited by Claire Sutherland, Elena Barabantseva

   This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59412-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

   Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

   The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59201-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth

   Edited by Esther Webman

   This book examines the impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion across the world since it was compiled in the early 20th century. It explores the tract’s successful dissemination and how such a blatant Anti-semitic fabrication is still accepted as true by so many....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59892-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Being Human in Islam: The Impact of the Evolutionary Worldview

   By Damian Howard

   Islamic anthropology is relatively seldom treated as a particular concern even though much of the contemporary debate on the modernisation of Islam, its acceptance of human rights and democracy, makes implicit assumptions about the way Muslims conceive of the human being. This book explores how the...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60368-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Politics of Religion in Indonesia: Syncretism, Orthodoxy, and Religious Contention in Java and Bali

   Edited by Michel Picard, Rémy Madinier

   Within Indonesia, Java and Bali provide a fascinating field of comparison between two neighbouring societies shaped by two rival religions – Islam and Hinduism. Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics. While not being a theocratic country, it is not secular either, as the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61311-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Ethical Practice, Religious Reform, and the Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal: Seeing Things as They Are

   By Lauren Leve

   Theravada has experienced a powerful and far-reaching revival, especially among the Newar Buddhist laity, many of whom are reorganizing their lives according to its precepts, practices and ideals. This book documents these far-reaching social and personal transformations and links them to...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61734-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945

   By Xue Yu

   This thesis examines the doctrinal grounds and different approaches to working out this "new Buddhist tradition," a startling contrast to the teachings of non-violence and compassion which have made Buddhism known as a religion of peace. In scores of articles as war approached in 1936-37, new monks...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-80230-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Evans-Pritchard

    By Mary Douglas

    First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. He wrote these works in his thirties and forties, after which time he became chair of...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-60659-2 | Paperback (Routledge)