Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.

This article introduces a special issue on practices of religious and scholarly knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. In both regions, the makings of religion have been informed by unsettling encounters between religious experts on the one hand and academic scholars of, and in, rel...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:History & Anthropology Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 727 - 740
Autores principales: Bloembergen, Marieke, Kloos, David
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=174083830&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 174083830
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        02757206
        7VZ
      jtl: History & Anthropology
      issn: 02757206
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Dec2023
      vid: 34
      iid: 5
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    artinfo:
      ui:
        174083830
        10.1080/02757206.2023.2249479
      ppf: 727
      ppct: 13
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 941KB
      tig:
        atl: Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.
      aug:
        au:
          Bloembergen, Marieke
          Kloos, David
        affil:
          KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Netherlands
          Institute for History, Colonial and Global History, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
      su:
        Information sharing
        Religion
        Monasteries
        Religious institutions
        Shrines
      sug:
        subj:
          Information sharing
          Religion
          Monasteries
          Religious institutions
          Shrines
      keyword:
        expertise
        knowledge production
        moral geography
        sites
        Southeast Asia
        the Caribbean
      ab: This article introduces a special issue on practices of religious and scholarly knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. In both regions, the makings of religion have been informed by unsettling encounters between religious experts on the one hand and academic scholars of, and in, religion on the other. These encounters, we argue, can be revealed and productively analyzed through a focus on sites of learning and exchange, such as schools and universities, temples and monasteries, holy shrines, conferences and workshops, but also texts and archives. At such sites, alternative actors, referred to in this special issue as 'strategic amateurs and accidental experts', often emerge as unexpected agents of religious change. After explaining the central theme and approach, we draw together and synthesize two strands of argument found in the separate articles, respectively the centrality of moral geographies and geographic imaginations to the making of religion and the intriguing role played by performances of expertise, either as a form of gatekeeping in religious communities and institutions or as alternative sources of religious knowledge and authority. The article concludes with a reflective note on the role of scholars in both fortifying and destabilizing understandings of region and religion.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Copyright of History & Anthropology is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
      item: History & Anthropology
      holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2023
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N