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Temiar religion, 1964-2012 enchantment, disenchantment and re-enchantment in Malaysia's uplands

The Temiars, a Mon-Khmer-speaking Orang Asli society living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia, have long attracted popular attention in the West for reports that ascribed to them the special psychotherapeutic known as 'Senoi Dreamwork'. However, the reality of Temiar religion...

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Main Author: Benjamin, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore NUS Press 2014
Subjects:
Conversion
Ethnology > Malaysia
Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Malaysia > Religion
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Table of Contents:
  • The historical and intellectual background
  • The Temiars and their religion
  • Temiar religion (1967). The cosmos
  • Species
  • Souls
  • Spirit-mediumship
  • Theology
  • Field-report correspondence with Edmund Leach
  • Temiar mediumship in context
  • Indigenous religious systems of the malay Peninsula
  • Danger and dialectic in Temiar childhood
  • Rationalisation and re-enchantment : temiar religion, 1964-94
  • Temiar religions, 1994-2012 : Islam, Christianity

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