Newsletter 47

Newsletter 47

Spring 2008

2Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

1, 4 & 5The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University / Tamasin Ramsay & Wendy Smith
3Asian new religious movements as global organisations / Wendy Smith
5 - 6Blurring the boundaries between corporation and religion / Louella Matsunaga
6 - 7Japanese NRMs as ‘multinational enterprises and ‘epidemics’ / Hirochika Nakamaki
8 - 9A Japanese new religion in the age of globalisation / Ronan Alves Pereira
10 - 11Maintaining ‘Japaneseness’: the strategy of the Church of World Messianity in Brazil / Hideaki Matsuoka
12 - 13A global NRM based on miracles: Sukyo Mahikari / Wendy Smith
14 - 15From science fictional Japan to Japanese science fiction /
Chris Goto-Jones
16Democracy by degrees: China's roadmap for change? / Yongjun Zhao
17Colonial courts and custom: comparative reflections on customary law and colonial modernity in Korea / Marie Seong-Hak Kim
18 - 19Double migrants, diversity and diasporas: a snapshot of the Hindustani and non-resident Indian community in the Netherlands / Igor Kotin
19An ‘aesthetic education': the role of sentiments in the transition from traditional Confucianism to modern aesthetics / Mei-Yen Lee
21 - 22‘Culture as a basic need’: The Prince Claus Fund’s Special Program: Cultural Emergency Response / Ginger da Silva & Iwana Chronis
22The wisdom of ‘tied logs’: traditional boats of India’s Orissa coast during the colonial era / Ganeswar Nayak
23Stable but unpopular: political parties after Suharto / Marcus Mietzner
24 - 25Raja Lorenzo II: a Catholic kingdom in the Dutch East Indies / R.H. Barnes
26 - 27Betel-chewing in mainland Southeast Asia / Nguyen Xuan Hien & P.A. Reichart

28 - 29Individuality, literature and censorship: Gao xingjiang and China / Bob van der Linden
30New For Review
31Who is using NewAsiaBooks.org? / Thomas Voorter
31Bookmarked
32Rebel with a cause: debunking the mythical mystical Tibet / Mara Matta
33Lifting up women without lifting the veil / Karuna Sharma
34Three’s a crowd? Declining US hegemony in the Asia-Pacfic / Thomas S. Wilkins
35The search for security in East Asia / Frans Paul van der Putten
36Elections as popular culture / Meredith Weiss
37A complex conflict / Nicholas Tarling
38 - 41Network Asia
42IIAS Research
44 - 45Announcements
46IIAS Fellows
47International Conference Agenda
48Colophon

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