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  • Religious Responses to Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Disasters

    by David Chester, Angus Duncan, John Duncan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the world’s major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR).It seeks to demonstrate how contemporary dialogues between theologians, disaster scholars and policymakers are defining ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands

    History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores

    by David Chester, Angus Duncan, Rui Coutinho, Nicolau Wallenstein ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction.This is the only volume to consider the earthquake and volcanic histories of the Azores across the whole ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Living with Civilisations

    Reflections on Southeast Asia's Local and National Cultures

    by Gungwu Wang ...
    Series series IPS-Nathan Lecture Series
    Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience.The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct local identities. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Religion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it - how they eat, dress, marry, and raise their children. It shapes their assumptions about who they are and who they want to be. Religion also identifies insiders and outsiders, who has power and who ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    by Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Malays

    by Anthony Milner ...
    Series series The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousness over ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia

    by Charles E. Farhadian ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to ... Read more

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  • Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia

    An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature

    by Frode F. Jacobsen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. For centuries migration has played a vital part in Hadrami adaptation. External forces, such as the expanding powers of the Portugese in the Indian Ocean and the Turkish conquering ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

    by Lorraine Aragon, Andrew Causey, Holly High, Judith Nagata, Harold C. Conklin, Hjorleifur Jonsson, John Clammer, Christina Schwenkel, Susan Darlington, Nancy Smith-Hefner, Katharine Wiegele, Pattana Kitiarsa, Sandra Cate, Nir Avieli, Shaun Kingsley Malarney, Elizabeth Traube, Eve Zucker, Chris Lyttleton, Robert Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, Juli Edo, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Gene Ammarell ...
    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD