A Horstmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 52468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Horstmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Horstmann |
| SIGNATURE | HORSTMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8470-5379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction of Special Issue “Religion and Refugee
Mainstream works on refugees and religion have underlined the value that religion provides to émigrés [...]
Buddhist Protectionism, Political Imaginaries of Belonging, and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Myanmar
After decades of military rule in Myanmar, civil society organizations and the National League for Democracy (NLD) have used the opening public space to mount inter-religious dialogue and to raise sensibility for religious freedom in an ethnically and religiously diverse nation. At the same time, the new democratic space is also used by well-resourced Buddhist and nationalist organizations and the military in the name of protecting race and Buddh…
An American Hero
This article examines the vastly expanded mobility of displaced Karen villagers in the evangelical humanitarian movement, the Free Burma Rangers. This builds on ethnographic fieldwork on humanitarian cultures in the Thai-Burmese borderlands conducted since 2007 with a Thai research team and funded by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity. While refugees are too often presented as victims, the article argues that by joining the…
Frontier Livelihoods
Incorporation and Resistance
While permeable and ambiguous national borders can be said to play a crucial role in Anderson s work (1983) on the imagined community of the modern nation as well as in Thongchai s path-breaking study (1994) on the emergence of a hierarchical ethno-geography of modern Siam, it is astonishing how little attention has been given so far to international borders in Southeast Asia. There are strong reasons why the study of borders is timely. The borde…
Stretching the Border
In this paper, I hope to add a complementary perspective to James Scott's recent work on avoidance strategies of subaltern mountain people by focusing on what I call the refugee public. The educated Karen elite uses the space of exile in the Thai borderland to reconstitute resources and to re-enter Karen state in Eastern Burma as humanitarians, providing medical, educational resources and help to document human rights violations and do advocacy w…
Faith in the Future
Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies and beyond. Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia provides a comparative analysis of the key features and aspirations of revitalization movements and assesses their scope for shaping the future trajectories of societies in all parts of the world.
Échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel
Dans cet article, je m'intéresse aux échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel tels qu'ils se déroulent entre les bouddhistes et les musulmans partageant les mêmes lieux de vie en Thaïlande du Sud. Les quartiers multi-religieux renvoient au partage de l'espace physique et au développement d'un savoir local dans lequel les gens expriment leur appartenance à une entité commune en s'investissant dans des relations qui dépassent la scis…
Manora Ancestral Beings, Possession and Cosmic Rejuvenation in Southern Thailand. Modern Adaptations of the Multi-Religious Manora Ancestral Vow Ceremony
Author: Horstmann, Alexander; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2012; Title: Manora ancestral beings, possession and cosmic rejuvenation in Southern Thailand : modern adaptations of the multi-religious Manora ancestral vow ceremony
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Living together
In this article, I provide a preliminary analysis of Buddhist–Muslim coexistence in the Songkhla Lake area in southern Thailand as it unfolds on the margins of a violent conflict in the Deep South (Patani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces). I argue that in the Songkhla Lake area, social, religious, economic and political alliances are reflected in multi-religious ritual traditions that have the potential to transcend cultural difference or manage di…
Sacred Networks and Struggles among the Karen Baptists across the Thailand-Burma Border
In this article, I provide a case study of a moving border between Thailand and Burma. Emphasizing the agency of people who become refugees, the article is concerned to point out the important role of religious networks in providing humanitarian assistance, shelter and mobility to stateless Karen refugees. I argue that Christian and Buddhist literate networks- realigned in political exile, develop competing visions of a Karen “homeland.” Arguing …
Ethical Dilemmas and Identifications of Faith-Based Humanitarian Organizations in the Karen Refugee Crisis
This paper examines faith-based humanitarian organizations and their multiple alliances with Karen Baptist missionary networks in the context of the Karen refugee crisis. Far from being only passive recipients of humanitarian assistance, I argue that Karen people become important agents of proselytizing, using their cultural capital to reach out to the imagined community of would-be Christians. Doing so, Karen are able to expand opportunities and…
The Revitalisation and Reflexive Transformation of the Manooraa Rongkruu Performance and Ritual in Southern Thailand
The Post-Modern Shift
Um die Seelen buhlen
Die Revitalisierung des spirituellen Islams in neuen Erweckungsbewegungen, die unter der Bezeichnung Da'wa bekannt wurden, hat in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren maßgeblich zur Islamisierung der Lokalgesellschaften beigetragen. Die ursprünglich aus Mewat in der Nähe von Delhi, Nordindien, stammende Graswurzelbewegung Jama'at al-Da'wa (TJ) ist heute die mit Abstand erfolgreichste und einflussreichste translokale Da'wa-Bewegung im Süden Thailands. Die…
Taylor, Philip
Anthropos , Seite 627 - 628
The Tablighi Jama'at, Transnational Islam, and the Transformation of the Self between Southern Thailand and South Asia
The Inculturation of a Transnational Islamic Missionary Movement
This article analyses the interface between a transnational pietist Islamic movement on the one hand and Muslim villagers in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Southern Thailand on the other. The Tablighi Jamaat (henceforth abbreviated as TJ) expands at a fast pace, covering nearly every village with their weekly visits. Tha Sala in Nakhon Si Thammarat province is one of their showcases of success, as is Mayo in Patani province. However, the movement's effort…
Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Buddhist‐ Muslim Relations and Coexistence in Southern Thailand
This review article of ethnological literature on the area straddling southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia is the author's first attempt to show the historical development of Muslim-Buddhist relations in the period 1969-2002. The literature mirrors the transformation of Muslim-Buddhist relations from shared cosmos to the mobilization of hatred by illustrating the local institutions of coexistence (intermarriage, local beliefs in common ances…
Class, Culture and Space
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production an…
Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
The Revitalization of Islam in Southeast Asia
Darul Arqam was founded relatively late in 7968 in Malaysia, while Jemaat Tabligh was founded 1927 in India, but is active in nearly all countries where Muslims live. Both organizations could be described as grassroots and have from the very beginning sought to revitalize Islam by emphasizing piety, da'wa, Islamic rituals and most of all, the establishment of a utopian commune. Thus this article, amongst other things, seeks to analyze the influen…
Gender, Tabligh, and the "Docile Agent"
In this article, I hope to explore some aspects of the complexity of the subject. Engagement in the Tablighi movement is neither a mere act of emancipation nor the complete subordination of women's agency to the rule of men.1 I suggest that the answer to the attraction of the movement to women lies between these two lines. I propose that the women who choose to ally themselves with the movement are prepared to submit themselves to the rules of th…
Frontier Livelihoods
Ethical Dilemmas and Identifications of Faith-Based Humanitarian Organizations in the Karen Refugee Crisis
This paper examines faith-based humanitarian organizations and their multiple alliances with Karen Baptist missionary networks in the context of the Karen refugee crisis. Far from being only passive recipients of humanitarian assistance, I argue that Karen people become important agents of proselytizing, using their cultural capital to reach out to the imagined community of would-be Christians. Doing so, Karen are able to expand opportunities and…
The Inculturation of a Transnational Islamic Missionary Movement
This article analyses the interface between a transnational pietist Islamic movement on the one hand and Muslim villagers in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Southern Thailand on the other. The Tablighi Jamaat (henceforth abbreviated as TJ) expands at a fast pace, covering nearly every village with their weekly visits. Tha Sala in Nakhon Si Thammarat province is one of their showcases of success, as is Mayo in Patani province. However, the movement's effort…
Sacred Networks and Struggles among the Karen Baptists across the Thailand-Burma Border
In this article, I provide a case study of a moving border between Thailand and Burma. Emphasizing the agency of people who become refugees, the article is concerned to point out the important role of religious networks in providing humanitarian assistance, shelter and mobility to stateless Karen refugees. I argue that Christian and Buddhist literate networks- realigned in political exile, develop competing visions of a Karen “homeland.” Arguing …
Stretching the Border
In this paper, I hope to add a complementary perspective to James Scott's recent work on avoidance strategies of subaltern mountain people by focusing on what I call the refugee public. The educated Karen elite uses the space of exile in the Thai borderland to reconstitute resources and to re-enter Karen state in Eastern Burma as humanitarians, providing medical, educational resources and help to document human rights violations and do advocacy w…
The Tablighi Jama'at, Transnational Islam, and the Transformation of the Self between Southern Thailand and South Asia
Living together
In this article, I provide a preliminary analysis of Buddhist–Muslim coexistence in the Songkhla Lake area in southern Thailand as it unfolds on the margins of a violent conflict in the Deep South (Patani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces). I argue that in the Songkhla Lake area, social, religious, economic and political alliances are reflected in multi-religious ritual traditions that have the potential to transcend cultural difference or manage di…
The Post-Modern Shift
Class, Culture and Space
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production an…
An American Hero
This article examines the vastly expanded mobility of displaced Karen villagers in the evangelical humanitarian movement, the Free Burma Rangers. This builds on ethnographic fieldwork on humanitarian cultures in the Thai-Burmese borderlands conducted since 2007 with a Thai research team and funded by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity. While refugees are too often presented as victims, the article argues that by joining the…
Échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel
Dans cet article, je m'intéresse aux échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel tels qu'ils se déroulent entre les bouddhistes et les musulmans partageant les mêmes lieux de vie en Thaïlande du Sud. Les quartiers multi-religieux renvoient au partage de l'espace physique et au développement d'un savoir local dans lequel les gens expriment leur appartenance à une entité commune en s'investissant dans des relations qui dépassent la scis…
Manora Ancestral Beings, Possession and Cosmic Rejuvenation in Southern Thailand. Modern Adaptations of the Multi-Religious Manora Ancestral Vow Ceremony
Author: Horstmann, Alexander; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2012; Title: Manora ancestral beings, possession and cosmic rejuvenation in Southern Thailand : modern adaptations of the multi-religious Manora ancestral vow ceremony
The Revitalisation and Reflexive Transformation of the Manooraa Rongkruu Performance and Ritual in Southern Thailand
The Revitalization of Islam in Southeast Asia
Darul Arqam was founded relatively late in 7968 in Malaysia, while Jemaat Tabligh was founded 1927 in India, but is active in nearly all countries where Muslims live. Both organizations could be described as grassroots and have from the very beginning sought to revitalize Islam by emphasizing piety, da'wa, Islamic rituals and most of all, the establishment of a utopian commune. Thus this article, amongst other things, seeks to analyze the influen…
Gender, Tabligh, and the "Docile Agent"
In this article, I hope to explore some aspects of the complexity of the subject. Engagement in the Tablighi movement is neither a mere act of emancipation nor the complete subordination of women's agency to the rule of men.1 I suggest that the answer to the attraction of the movement to women lies between these two lines. I propose that the women who choose to ally themselves with the movement are prepared to submit themselves to the rules of th…
Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
Class, Culture and Space
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production an…
Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Buddhist‐ Muslim Relations and Coexistence in Southern Thailand
This review article of ethnological literature on the area straddling southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia is the author's first attempt to show the historical development of Muslim-Buddhist relations in the period 1969-2002. The literature mirrors the transformation of Muslim-Buddhist relations from shared cosmos to the mobilization of hatred by illustrating the local institutions of coexistence (intermarriage, local beliefs in common ances…
The Tablighi Jama'at, Transnational Islam, and the Transformation of the Self between Southern Thailand and South Asia
The Inculturation of a Transnational Islamic Missionary Movement
This article analyses the interface between a transnational pietist Islamic movement on the one hand and Muslim villagers in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Southern Thailand on the other. The Tablighi Jamaat (henceforth abbreviated as TJ) expands at a fast pace, covering nearly every village with their weekly visits. Tha Sala in Nakhon Si Thammarat province is one of their showcases of success, as is Mayo in Patani province. However, the movement's effort…
Um die Seelen buhlen
Die Revitalisierung des spirituellen Islams in neuen Erweckungsbewegungen, die unter der Bezeichnung Da'wa bekannt wurden, hat in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren maßgeblich zur Islamisierung der Lokalgesellschaften beigetragen. Die ursprünglich aus Mewat in der Nähe von Delhi, Nordindien, stammende Graswurzelbewegung Jama'at al-Da'wa (TJ) ist heute die mit Abstand erfolgreichste und einflussreichste translokale Da'wa-Bewegung im Süden Thailands. Die…
Taylor, Philip
Anthropos , Seite 627 - 628
The Revitalisation and Reflexive Transformation of the Manooraa Rongkruu Performance and Ritual in Southern Thailand
The Post-Modern Shift
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Living together
In this article, I provide a preliminary analysis of Buddhist–Muslim coexistence in the Songkhla Lake area in southern Thailand as it unfolds on the margins of a violent conflict in the Deep South (Patani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces). I argue that in the Songkhla Lake area, social, religious, economic and political alliances are reflected in multi-religious ritual traditions that have the potential to transcend cultural difference or manage di…
Sacred Networks and Struggles among the Karen Baptists across the Thailand-Burma Border
In this article, I provide a case study of a moving border between Thailand and Burma. Emphasizing the agency of people who become refugees, the article is concerned to point out the important role of religious networks in providing humanitarian assistance, shelter and mobility to stateless Karen refugees. I argue that Christian and Buddhist literate networks- realigned in political exile, develop competing visions of a Karen “homeland.” Arguing …
Ethical Dilemmas and Identifications of Faith-Based Humanitarian Organizations in the Karen Refugee Crisis
This paper examines faith-based humanitarian organizations and their multiple alliances with Karen Baptist missionary networks in the context of the Karen refugee crisis. Far from being only passive recipients of humanitarian assistance, I argue that Karen people become important agents of proselytizing, using their cultural capital to reach out to the imagined community of would-be Christians. Doing so, Karen are able to expand opportunities and…
Manora Ancestral Beings, Possession and Cosmic Rejuvenation in Southern Thailand. Modern Adaptations of the Multi-Religious Manora Ancestral Vow Ceremony
Author: Horstmann, Alexander; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2012; Title: Manora ancestral beings, possession and cosmic rejuvenation in Southern Thailand : modern adaptations of the multi-religious Manora ancestral vow ceremony
Faith in the Future
Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies and beyond. Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia provides a comparative analysis of the key features and aspirations of revitalization movements and assesses their scope for shaping the future trajectories of societies in all parts of the world.
Échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel
Dans cet article, je m'intéresse aux échanges de gestuelles religieuses dans l'espace rituel tels qu'ils se déroulent entre les bouddhistes et les musulmans partageant les mêmes lieux de vie en Thaïlande du Sud. Les quartiers multi-religieux renvoient au partage de l'espace physique et au développement d'un savoir local dans lequel les gens expriment leur appartenance à une entité commune en s'investissant dans des relations qui dépassent la scis…
Incorporation and Resistance
While permeable and ambiguous national borders can be said to play a crucial role in Anderson s work (1983) on the imagined community of the modern nation as well as in Thongchai s path-breaking study (1994) on the emergence of a hierarchical ethno-geography of modern Siam, it is astonishing how little attention has been given so far to international borders in Southeast Asia. There are strong reasons why the study of borders is timely. The borde…
Stretching the Border
In this paper, I hope to add a complementary perspective to James Scott's recent work on avoidance strategies of subaltern mountain people by focusing on what I call the refugee public. The educated Karen elite uses the space of exile in the Thai borderland to reconstitute resources and to re-enter Karen state in Eastern Burma as humanitarians, providing medical, educational resources and help to document human rights violations and do advocacy w…
Frontier Livelihoods
An American Hero
This article examines the vastly expanded mobility of displaced Karen villagers in the evangelical humanitarian movement, the Free Burma Rangers. This builds on ethnographic fieldwork on humanitarian cultures in the Thai-Burmese borderlands conducted since 2007 with a Thai research team and funded by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity. While refugees are too often presented as victims, the article argues that by joining the…
Buddhist Protectionism, Political Imaginaries of Belonging, and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Myanmar
After decades of military rule in Myanmar, civil society organizations and the National League for Democracy (NLD) have used the opening public space to mount inter-religious dialogue and to raise sensibility for religious freedom in an ethnically and religiously diverse nation. At the same time, the new democratic space is also used by well-resourced Buddhist and nationalist organizations and the military in the name of protecting race and Buddh…
Introduction of Special Issue “Religion and Refugee
Mainstream works on refugees and religion have underlined the value that religion provides to émigrés [...]
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works)