Summer 2010


1 Cover


2 Contents


3 From the Editor





The Study


4 - 5





Iran: social revolt and prospects for change (part 2) Mehdi Parvizi Amineh


6 - 9 World Heritage site status: boon or bane? Ean Lee


10 Leather gloves and tiny fingers Anna Ensing


11 $#@% mak!: the oil in the multicultural machine Yeoh Seng Guan


12 - 15 Sexuality and power: towards an intimate history of the consolidation of Dutch rule in early 19th century Java Peter Carey


16 Art collections in wartime in the Netherlands East Indies 1942-1945 Louis Zweers


The Focus - Religion and Global Empire


17 - 18 Politics and religion in Asia � comparative frameworks Kiri Paramore


19 The value of comparison Peter van der Veer


20 - 21 The historical roots and character of Secularism in China Prasenjit Duara


22 - 23 The second encounter between Confucianism and Christianity Ya-pei Kuo


24 - 25 Religion as practice, politics as mission Kiri Paramore


26 - 27 Ultimate concerns: religion, the state and the nation in Korea Boudewijn Walraven


28 - 29 Negotiation over religious space in Vietnam Edyta Roszko


30 Confucian thought in early Nishida Dermott Walsh


31 Japan, the Jews, and divine election: Nakada Juji�s Christian nationalism Aike P. Rots


32 Women, Confucianism and nation-building in Han Yongun�s novel Death Jung-Shim Lee





The Review


33 New For Review


24 Bookmarked


35 Indian students back home and abroad Michiel Baas


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Southeast Asia and the great powers Ang Chen Guan


37 In our third age / Inventing ourselves as Filipinos Niels Mulder


38 The Indonesian Reader Laura Noszlopy


38 Epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense Katrina Gulliver





The Network


39 News


40 Opinion � What do Chinese negotiators think? Lessons from Copenhagen Kerry Brown


41 A longitudinal treasure trove Ron Witton


42 Folk gods, memorial stones, pastoral communities and temples Edeltraud Bienek & Sonja Stark-Wild


43 ICAS


44 Announcements


45 IIAS Research


46 IIAS Fellows


47 Colophon





The Portrait


48 Simply a sari?