People of Virtue: Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia TodayAlexandra Kent, David Porter Chandler NIAS Press, 2008 - 323 pages Much attention has been given to the "killing fields" of Cambodia, far less to how the country can recover and heal itself after such an experience. Crucial to this process has been the formation of a new moral order in Cambodia and hence the revival of religion in the country. However, this process requires that the representatives of religion and of morality do have credibility and moral authority, something that may be called into question by their past and present involvement in hegemonic political and secular affairs. |
Contents
Introduction 1 12 2 Alain Forest Buddhism and Reform Imposed reforms and popular | 1 |
The Scope and Limitations of Political Participation | 12 |
aspirations Some historical notes to aid reflection | 16 |
Index 319 | 31 |
Modernism and Morality in the Colonial Era | 35 |
Truth Representation and the Politics of Memory after | 62 |
Wat Preah Thammalanka and the Legend of Lok Ta Nen | 85 |
The Recovery of the King | 109 |
Between Forests and Families a remembered past life | 128 |
Buddhist Practice in Rural Kandal Province | 147 |
Reconstructing Buddhist Temple Buildings an analysis | 169 |
The Absence of Elders Chaos and moral order in the aftermath | 195 |
The Moral Geology of the Present Structuring morality | 213 |
in front of him | 286 |