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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 (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 (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 (1994) 53 (4): 1306–1308.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Anne Hardgrove The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi . By Antonio Rigopoulos . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xxviii, 466 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1306 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
... of Terengganu, who represent a mere 3.38 percent of the state s population. Tan Chee-Beng identi es two categories of Chinese in Terengganu: the acculturated Chinese and the less-acculturated or more purely Chinese (a group about whom we do not learn in this study). Unlike the Baba, Straits, or Peranakan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 857–871.
Published: 01 November 2012
... away from it. Something about it felt wrong to me, 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...
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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
... 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] and gave birth to him in Khotan. Now he was forty-one years old. One...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 February 2005
... Diane . 1989 a. “The Bir Babas of Banaras and the Deified Dead.” In Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism , ed. Alf Hiltebeitel . Albany : State University of New York Press . Coccari Diane . 1989 b. “Protection and Identity: Banaras' Bīr Babas...
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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 (2020) 79 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 February 2020
... as Baba-Nyonya (sharing roots with Peranakan , a term for Indonesian citizens of Chinese background), set Chinese communities apart from “indigenous races of Burma” or tainyintha lumyo (p. 7). As recent events surrounding the Rohingya suggest, political exclusion can have disastrous consequences...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 83–87.
Published: 01 June 1964
... 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 with vermilion and arranges sticks of wood around...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 867–868.
Published: 01 August 2011
... further instances of military personnel's involvement in the networks of antinomian faqīr s beyond the borders of Hyderabad State through the cases of Tāj al-dīn Bābā of Nagpur and Bābā Jān of Pune. Recent years have seen an expansion of studies on the social and cultural aspects of military...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1227–1250.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Society of Krishna Consciousness, Ananda Marga, Brahma Kumari, Art of Living, or the Satya Sai Baba Mission. He was increasingly sought after by the governor of Bali, Indonesian Hindu officials such as Titib, and middle-class Balinese professionals eager to visit India. In 1999, he eventually became...
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