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Popular religion in Southeast Asia
In this overview of popular religion in Southeast Asia, Robert L.Winzeler offers an interpretative look at the nature of today's indigenous religious traditions as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity and conversion.
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The study of Malay magic
[...]many of the earlier. works have also been published in recent years as hardbound reprints and, often, in paperback editions.5 These The Study of Malay Magie 437 continue to serve as popular and scholarly introductions to Malay religion and culture. Endicott (1970:7) thus writes that he is \"interested in Islam only to the extent that it has become embedded in this generally held [magical] body of ideas\"; in fact, with the exception of the category of Sufism, Islam is mentioned only in passing.8 Conceptual problems are not, however, the only difficulty with the literature on Malay magie, and it is likely that these are partly symptomatic of other, more substantial, difficulties. Since no full-scale field study of magie in Malay culture and society has been undertaken, or at least reported, in the recent period, all current as well as past discussion has been dependent upon the earlier literature. Neither Winstedt nor Wilkinson tended to discuss the circumstances under which they gathered information on Malay magie and religion though Wilkinson did so in regard to his dictionary and his methods were those characteristic of the anthropological linguist (Wilkinson 1957:i-iv). [...]the nature of their writings on these topics cannot be so easily attributed to the inherent limitations of the conditions under which they gathered information as in the case of observers who had only occasional, superficial contact with the remote peoples about whom they wrote. [...]the prefatory comments of both Wilcox and Gimlette about the practical (as well as scientific) value of the study have reference mainly to the significance of its findings about material or pharmacological substances rather than magical beliefs and practices.
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