The Newsletter 54 Summer 2010

Guest Editor Kiri Paramore brings together ideas of religion, power and identity in Asia in his theme Religion and Global Empire.

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The Focus

The Focus

Religion and Global Empire

Politics and religion in Asia - comparative frameworks

The value of comparison

The historical roots and character of Secularism in China

The second encounter between Confucianism and Christianity

Religion as practice, politics as mission

Ultimate concerns: religion, the state and the nation in Korea

Negotiation over religious space in Vietnam

Confucian thought in early Nishida

Japan, the Jews, and divine election: Nakada Juji's Christian nationalism

Women, Confucianism and nation-building in Han Yongun's novel Death

The Study

Iran: social revolt and prospects for change (part 2)

World Heritage site status: boon or bane?

Leather gloves and tiny fingers

$#@% mak!: the oil in the multicultural machine

Sexuality and power: towards an intimate history of the consolidation of Dutch rule in early 19th century Java

Art collections in wartime in the Netherlands East Indies 1942-1945

The Review

Indian students back home and abroad

Southeast Asia and the great powers

In our third age

Inventing ourselves as Filipinos

The Indonesian Reader

Epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense

The Network

What do Chinese negotiators think? Lessons from Copenhagen

Indonesian social case studies and sociographic data: a longitudinal treasure trove

Folk gods, memorial stones, pastoral communities and temples - the digitisation of Günther-Dietz Sontheimer's slide collection

The Portrait

Simply a sari?