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Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World
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This is a ground-breaking volume on the role of religion as a major force of cohesion across the Indian Ocean region.
A diverse range of experts present a case for conceptualizing religion as an enabler of not only shared religious identities throughout the Indian Ocean world, but multiple shared identities mediated through religion, particularly as religion intersects with other manifestations of human society in this part of the world. This theme is explored through six major religious traditions, many of which originated in the Indian Ocean region, and all of which have played major roles throughout its history and to the present day. These traditions include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. With this breadth and coverage of these traditions and their role in unifying communities from East Africa to Western Australia (including those belonging to nations north of that expanse of ocean), this book is a pioneering work on the multi-religious identities of the region.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Introduction: Songlines from Across the Seas: Religious Communities and Emergent Identities in the Indian Ocean World
Mark Fielding and Joshua Esler
Part I: Jewish Diaspora and the Homeland
1. Fighting off in the Distance: Dispute Resolution among the Jews of the Twelfth Century India Trade
Phillip I. Lieberman
2. Exploring the Presence and Culture of Ethiopian Jews
Lovenein Kaur and Jenny Skerritt
3. Keeping the Faith – The Jews of India
Angelica Jacob and Joshua Esler
Part II: Christian Missionaries, Settlers and Migrants
4. To Convert and Civilize? An Italian Missionary Learns Painful Lessons in Early Western Australia
John J. Kinder
5. “Warriors of Christ:” The Portuguese Empire in the Indian Ocean Region from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Augusto Zimmermann
6. What Makes For “A Civilized Life?” Leisure, Liberal Values and Australian Aboriginal Approaches to Work and Technology
Matthew C. Ogilvie
7. The Gospel from the Indian Ocean: A Brief History of Tibetan Christianity
Namloyak Dhungser
8. The Depok Estate, the Depokkers and Christianity 1697-1950
Nonja Peters
9. Migration and Churches: Exploring the Role of Chinese Churches in Migrants' Adaptation Process in Perth, Australia
Him Chung, Leei Wong, and Peter Ho
Part III: Islam: Historic and Contemporary Fragmentation and Cohesion
10. The Mosques of the Maldives and Buddhist Indian Ocean Worlds
Stéphane Pradines and Anita Nadeem
11. The State and the Swahili Peoples of the Contemporary East African Coast
Gregory Cameron
Part IV Hinduism in an Island Paradise
12. The Cross-border Interplay of Religion, Trade and Tourism: The Case of Hindu Bali and Australian Visitors
Jonathan D. James and Daniel Trihandarkha
Part V: Jainism: Monsoon Traders and the Diaspora
13. The Currents of Culture – Jains and Jainism in the Indian Ocean
Tine Vekemans and Yifan Zhang
Part VI: Buddhism in Transition: Migration, Transnationalism and the Buddhist Imaginary
14. When Was Buddhism First Established in Australia?: Methodological Issues from a Hazy Past
John Powers
15. 'Landlocked Tibet' and the Indian Ocean: Exploring the Tibetan Imaginary of the Maritime Through the Biography of Atisa, the Jataka Stories and Religious Art
Joshua Esler
16. Materializing Tibetan Buddhism in the West: The Co-emergence of Tradition and Conversion
Kathleen Gregory
17. Remoulding Religion: How Vietnamese Buddhism Navigated Change, Withstood War and Migrated Abroad
Alexander Baky Tran
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Product details
| Published | Sep 18 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 450 |
| ISBN | 9781666970760 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 34 bw illus; 3 tables |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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