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- Temiar Religion, 1964-2012: Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Malaysia's Uplands
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
summary
The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practiced Mahayana Buddhism and later Islam, but when Geoffrey Benjamin began his fieldwork in 1964, the Temiar practiced a localised and unexportable animistic religion. Over a period of fifty years he has followed the Temiar community, witnessing a series of changes that have seen them become ever more embedded in broader Malaysian society. Benjamin’s work traces a process of religious enchantment, dis-enchantment and re-enchantment, as the Temiars reacted in various ways to Baha’i, Islam and Christianity, including by developing their own new religion. In a text enriched by detailed ethnographic reportage, Benjamin draws on the Temiar experience to set out a novel theory of religion, and to explore the changing intellectual framework of anthropology over the past half-century.
Table of Contents
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- Title, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Tables and List of Figures
- pp. vi-viii
- Orthography and Pronunciation
- pp. xviii-xx
- Chapter 6: Temiar Religion (1967)--Souls
- pp. 106-154
- Chapter 8: Temiar Religion (1967)--Theology
- pp. 188-211
- Chapter 10: Temiar Mediumship in Context
- pp. 239-259
- Appendix 1-4
- pp. 385-416
- Bibliography
- pp. 417-437
Additional Information
ISBN
9789971698270
Related ISBN(s)
9789971697068
MARC Record
OCLC
966771196
Pages
600
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No