Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Michel Picard is a retired senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a founding member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (“Centre Asie du Sud-Est”, CNRS-EHESS) in Paris. An anthropologist by training, he has published extensively in the field of Balinese studies, specifically on tourism, culture, identity, ethnicity and religion.

• 1: Introduction: Local Traditions and World Religions. Encountering ‘Religion’ in Southeast Asia and Melanesia.- 2: About Buddhist Burma. Thathana, or ‘Religion’ as Social Space.- 3: The (Re)configuration of the Buddhist Field in Post-Communist Cambodia.- 4: Re-connecting the Ancestors: Buddhism and Animism on the Boloven Plateau, Laos.- 5: Balinese Religion in the Making: An enquiry About the Interpretation of Agama Hindu as ‘Hinduism’.- 6. Return to the Source: A Balinese Pilgrimage to India and the Re-enchantment of Agama Hindu in global modernity.-  7.- A Wall, Even in Those Days! Encounters with Religions and What Became of the Tradition.-  8:Encounters with Christianity in the North Moluccas (16th-19th Centuries).- 9: Continuity and Breaches in Religion and Globalization, a Melanesian Point of View.

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