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Developing from the third semester session of the Center for Khmer Studies' Rockefeller Foundation-funded Building Capacity In Higher Education program covering Religions in Mainland Southeast Asia, this two day conference provided a forum in which early career Cambodian academics presented their research alongside international scholars with related interests. With an emphasis on developing comparisons between Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia, individual presentations and panel discussions provided opportunities for the presentation of research, trends and analyses covering the importance of religion in Southeast Asia in the past, present and future. In Southeast Asia, as in the rest of the world, religion has become a more and more salient issue as transnational processes break down traditional assumptions about the modern secular nation state. We invite scholars to take a fresh look at religion in the new social context. How well have Buddhism, Islam and Christianity weathered the Communist and post-Communist eras? How are they affected by religious and secular influences from abroad? What has been the impact of evangelical Christianity, and how have Cambodians and other Southeast Asians reacted to it? How many young persons pursue a religious vocation, even for a short time? What do young people in urban areas believe, and what effect, if any, does religious teaching have on their behavior? What historical roots do current transnational patterns have? How is religious “tradition” remembered and reconstructed in the new social context? And finally, what comparisons can be made between what is happening in Cambodia and in neighboring countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Burma)? These are only a few of the questions that need to be addressed in what would ideally contribute to a long-term, multi-disciplinary study, a regional approach which identifies and compares cross-border networks and patterns. For further information please contact Chean Men: cheanmen@khmerstudies.org Click here to download Abstracts (PDF) Program Local Practice and Trans-National Dynamics in Mainland Southeast Asia Religions: Historical and Contemporary Patterns Friday, 23 February 2007 8.00-9.00 Registration 9.00-9.15 Opening Remarks, Philippe Peycam (CKS Director) 9.15-9.45 Keynote Address, John Marston, (Colegio de Mexico) Buddha-Jayanti in Cambodia 9:45- 10.00 Coffee Break PANEL 1: Religious Complexity of Mainland Southeast Asia 10.00-10.30 Chean R. Men, (Center for Khmer Studies, University of Hawaii, US) Religious Complexity of Mainland Southeast Asia: A Polyphonic Stratification View of Religious System 10.30-11.00 Emiko Stock Syncretism in a Magical Tool: Diversity and Continuity of Islamisation of Chams in Cambodia 11.00-11.30 Marion Sabrié (Sorbonne, Paris) The Religious Interfaces Between the Buddhist World and the Muslim World in Myanmar and in Rakhine in Particular 11.30-12.00 Panel Discussions 12.00-1.00 Lunch PANEL 2: Religious Practice in Social Actions 1.00-1.30 Peter Raymon Religions: Inception, Evolution and its Impact on Civilization 1.30-2.00 V. Nhim Sothun and Heng Sreang (Pannas. University of Cambodia, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia) The Role of Thai and Cambodian Buddhism in Education: A Contemporary Comparative Study .2.00-2.30 Peter Hammer, (Wayne State University, US) Buddhism and Development: The GTZ Wat-Based, Self-Help Initiative 2.30-3.00 Phuong L. Nguyen (Minnesota Population Center, US) Religious Practice and its Effects on Educational Attainment in Southeast Asia 3.00-3:15 Coffee Break 3.15-3:45 Dominic Nardi Green Buddhism, Saffron Robes: A Comparative Analysis of the Ecology Monks Cambodia 3.45-4.15 Ham Samnon (Buddhist Institute, Cambodia) The Situation of Daun Chi in Cambodia: Buddhist Institute Project 4: Gender and Buddhism 4.15-5.00 Panel Discussions Saturday, 24 February 2007 PANEL 3: Religion and Politics 9.00-9.30 Heng Sreang (PUC & RUPP, Cambodia) Buddhism and Politics in Contemporary Thailand and Cambodia: A Comparative study 9.30-10.00 Stephen McCarthy The Politics of Piety: Pageantry and the Struggle for Buddhism in Burma 10.15-11.00 Panel Discussions 10.30-10.45 Coffee Break PANEL 4: Religion and Ritual Practices 10.15-10.45 Dr. Peg LeVine (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia & Dr. Didier Bertrand, (Director of AFESIP, Laos PDR) Influx of “Trauma” Theories and Practices from Judeo-Christian Countries and their neglect of “Spirit-based Anxiety” in Cambodia and Laos 10.45-11.15 Bunnary Chea (Buddhist Institute, Cambodia) Popular Beliefs in Cambodia: Roles of Traditional Healers 11.15-11.45 Stéphanie Khoury Conducting the Spirits: Pinpeat Music and Spirit Worship in Cambodia 11.45-12.15 Panel Discussions 12.15-01.15 Lunch Panel 5: Localizing Religious Practices 1.15-1.45 Brian Ostrowski Localizing Christian Texts and the Results of the Jesuit Mission in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam 1.45-2.15 Jérémy Jammes Caodaism and Its Global Networks: An Ethnological Approach of a Vietnamese Religious Movement in Vietnamese, Cambodia and Overseas 2.15-2.45 Elizabeth Guthrie Cambodian Buddhist painting in the MEKONG DELTA 2.45-3.15 Nguyeãn Thò Thu Thuûy Islamic Cham Community in Southern Viet Nam: Dynamics of the Culture 3.15-3.45 Than Bunly (Buddhist Institute, Cambodia) Challenge of the Two Religions: Buddhism vs. Christianity in Phnom Penh and Chiang Mai 3.45-4.30 Panel Discussions 4.30-4.45 CLOSING REMARKS (Chean R. Men)
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Committee: With special thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation for supporting the CKS Building Institutional Capacity in Cambodian Higher Education Program and this conference.
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