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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 863–878.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Charles S. J. White Abstract Modern religious movements together with their saintly leaders in Hinduism constitute an area where-from little scholarly research appears, yet, in print. This study of the Sāi Bābā Movement attempts to show on the one hand that, regarding the saints in question (Sāi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 266–269.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Daniel Gold When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping Mā Ānandamayī after Her Death . By Orianne Aymard . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780199368624 (paper). The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint . By Karline...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 806–807.
Published: 01 August 2021
...David Hicks Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste . By Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies , 2019 . xviii, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780985042988 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1306–1308.
Published: 01 November 1994
... The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi. By A N T O N I O RiGOPOULOS. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993xxviii, 466 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19-95 (paper). Maharashtra has long been home to syncretic saint figures and scholarly research on popular religion. In this book Antonio Rigopoulos...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 1012–1013.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Robert L. Winzeler The Baba of Melaka: Culture and Identity in a Chinese Peranakan Community in Malaysia . By Tan Chee Beng . Selangor (Malaysia) : Pelandok Publications , 1988 . xxii, 297 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 1012 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 593–612.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Richard T. Chang Abstract In 1876 Baba Tatsui, then a young twenty-six year old man who had just completed two years' study of English law in London, published a booklet there called The Treaty Between Japan and England. It was a remarkable work in that it was destined to become the source most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Shelly Chan Abstract This article revisits the criticisms of “diaspora” by Wang Gungwu, Ien Ang, and Shu-mei Shih, and urges a return to the concept with an attention to temporality. Focusing on the story of Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957)—an Edinburgh-educated baba Chinese who led a Confucian revival...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 1010–1012.
Published: 01 November 1990
... rather than to Indonesia is, moreover, not considered here. But the primary virtue of the book is the author's careful discussions of the multiple norms and ideas that shape Samosir society, and these are of significant value. J O H N R. BOWEN Washington University The Baba of Melaka: Culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 894–896.
Published: 01 August 2011
... with detailed ethnographic research, crafting a project that is ultimately (to employ Geertz's famous depiction) both a model of and a model for dynamic theoretically engaged multi-cited ethnographic research. Chapter 1 introduces readers to the charismatic figure of Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 571–573.
Published: 01 May 2011
... on the Japan Sea, where Japan still is as rural as it can get and communal ties are still intact. This is where we meet Baba-san, the owner of a local liquor shop. As a businessman Baba-san for decades has profited from local politicians purchasing gift certificates to hand out to their supporters and those...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 261–262.
Published: 01 February 2005
... not learn in this study). Unlike the Baba, Straits, or Peranakan Chinese of Melaka, a well-delineated acculturated group of Malayspeaking Chinese with a long and well-documented history of dynamic adaptation to Malay culture, among whom Tan conducted extensive eldwork in the past, the perhaps equally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 857–871.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., but I could not quite put my finger on what bothered me. When I did fieldwork in a citizens' movement against a nuclear power plant, in 1999, long before the triple disasters of 3–11, I had several times heard one of the group's leaders, Baba-san, draw comparisons between coal and nuclear power...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 May 1989
... of Hinduism, then the modern, historic ones who have been most conspicuously accorded that status. The historic personalities he describes range from Chaitanya to Satya Sai Baba; the treatment of each is lucid and well developed. Three of these Ramakrishna, Meher Baba, and Satya Sai Baba claimed a particular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 627–653.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... Circle around us, and whoever among you mourn and humble yourselves will be companions and assistants of Islam.” Then their bodies disappeared from the sight of all but one person. His name was Khi z̤ r Bābā. His mother had been pregnant when she came from Mawarannahr [i.e. western Turkestan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 February 2005
... . 1998 . Representing the Other?: Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims (Eighth to Fourteenth Century) . New Delhi : Manohar . Chaturvedi Girish . 1996 . Tansen . Trans. Mohan Sarala Jag . Lotus Collection. New Delhi : Roli Books . Coccari Diane . 1989 a. “The Bir Babas of Banaras...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 February 2020
... formation” (p. 35) before challenging the rigidity of this category with the case of the Baba-Nyonya, “descendants of Han immigrants who settled in Penang, Melaka, and Singapore from the fifteenth century onward” (p. 39). In Mapping Chinese Rangoon , Roberts marshals a definition of Chineseness...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 83–87.
Published: 01 June 1964
..., a Kaharin (a woman of the water-carrier caste) plasters a large circular area with cow dung. Within this she then molds a cow-dung representation of Jiut Baba, the personification of life and of this ceremony, identified by many villagers with Lord Shiva. A Brahman marks the image of Jiut Baba...
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 11. Portrait of Confucius, traditionally attributed to Tang master Wu Daozi 吳 道 子 (ca. 689–after 755), rubbing of a Qing-period incised stone tablet in the Temple of Confucius, Qufu, Shandong. Source: Baba ( 1940 , 40).
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 867–868.
Published: 01 August 2011
... through the cases of Tāj al-dīn Bābā of Nagpur and Bābā Jān of Pune. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1227–1250.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to grow wary of the growing influence of Islam and Islamism in their country. 13 Oral information from Sathya Sai Baba circles; see also “On the Indian P.M. Vajpayee, Sai Baba, Rama and Ravana,” http://home.hetnet.nl~exbaba/engels/articles/onvajpayee.html . 14 See also “Country Profile...
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