S E Ackerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S E Ackerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | S E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackerman |
| SIGNATURE | ACKERMAN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pray To the Heavenly Father: A Chinese New Religion in Malaysia
PRAY TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER: A CHINESE NEW RELIGION IN MALAYSIA S. E. ACKERMAN and RAYMOND L. M. LEE Unlike the flourishing literature on Japanese new religions, there have been very few published accounts of Chinese new religions. To date, Marjorie Topley has reported on the Great Way sect based on material she collected in Malaya and Singapore between 1954 and 1955.1 Welch and Yu have given an interesting descrip- tion of a sect known as The Ho…
The Language of Religious Innovation: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in a Malaysian Catholic Pentecostal Movement
This paper examines spirit possession in relation to concepts of power that provide a focus for the redefinition of problematic relationships of concern to Catholic Pentecostals. Important continuities between folk traditions of supernaturalism and the conceptual structure underlying Catholic Pentecostalism in Malaysia are illustrated in the career histories of three Catholic exorcists. It will be argued that traditional cultural categories--spir…
Communication and cognitive pluralism in a spirit possession event in Malaysia
This study is concerned with how diverse definitions of spirit possession events in a factory are organized into predictable equivalence structures. A model of communication is utilized to show how information about possession is exchanged through reciprocal role behaviors at the primary level and through interpretive accounts at the secondary level. This approach emphasizes the complex processes involved in the communication of possession events…
Conflict and Solidarity in a Pentecostal Group in Urban Malaysia
Communication and cognitive pluralism in a spirit possession event in Malaysia
This study is concerned with how diverse definitions of spirit possession events in a factory are organized into predictable equivalence structures. A model of communication is utilized to show how information about possession is exchanged through reciprocal role behaviors at the primary level and through interpretive accounts at the secondary level. This approach emphasizes the complex processes involved in the communication of possession events…
The Language of Religious Innovation: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in a Malaysian Catholic Pentecostal Movement
This paper examines spirit possession in relation to concepts of power that provide a focus for the redefinition of problematic relationships of concern to Catholic Pentecostals. Important continuities between folk traditions of supernaturalism and the conceptual structure underlying Catholic Pentecostalism in Malaysia are illustrated in the career histories of three Catholic exorcists. It will be argued that traditional cultural categories--spir…
Pray To the Heavenly Father: A Chinese New Religion in Malaysia
PRAY TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER: A CHINESE NEW RELIGION IN MALAYSIA S. E. ACKERMAN and RAYMOND L. M. LEE Unlike the flourishing literature on Japanese new religions, there have been very few published accounts of Chinese new religions. To date, Marjorie Topley has reported on the Great Way sect based on material she collected in Malaya and Singapore between 1954 and 1955.1 Welch and Yu have given an interesting descrip- tion of a sect known as The Ho…
Conflict and Solidarity in a Pentecostal Group in Urban Malaysia
The Language of Religious Innovation: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in a Malaysian Catholic Pentecostal Movement
This paper examines spirit possession in relation to concepts of power that provide a focus for the redefinition of problematic relationships of concern to Catholic Pentecostals. Important continuities between folk traditions of supernaturalism and the conceptual structure underlying Catholic Pentecostalism in Malaysia are illustrated in the career histories of three Catholic exorcists. It will be argued that traditional cultural categories--spir…
Communication and cognitive pluralism in a spirit possession event in Malaysia
This study is concerned with how diverse definitions of spirit possession events in a factory are organized into predictable equivalence structures. A model of communication is utilized to show how information about possession is exchanged through reciprocal role behaviors at the primary level and through interpretive accounts at the secondary level. This approach emphasizes the complex processes involved in the communication of possession events…
Pray To the Heavenly Father: A Chinese New Religion in Malaysia
PRAY TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER: A CHINESE NEW RELIGION IN MALAYSIA S. E. ACKERMAN and RAYMOND L. M. LEE Unlike the flourishing literature on Japanese new religions, there have been very few published accounts of Chinese new religions. To date, Marjorie Topley has reported on the Great Way sect based on material she collected in Malaya and Singapore between 1954 and 1955.1 Welch and Yu have given an interesting descrip- tion of a sect known as The Ho…
Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works)