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Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. Indonesia is simultaneous a country that has achieved a successful transition to democracy and a flawed, illiberal, and...
Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Varieties of Secularism in Asia
Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
Series: Anthropology of Asia
Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...
Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge