4. Super-diverse Ancestors: Cemeterial Recollections as Practices of Coexistence in Rural Java
Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas - Alessandro Saggioro
Roberto Rizzo [+]
University of Milan-Bicocca
Roberto Rizzo is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Anthropology at the University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy. He has been an Ashoka fellow at the Khyentse Foundation and a field grant recipient by the École Française D'extrême-Orient. His research focuses predominantly on Buddhist revivalism in Indonesia and inter-religious dynamics in Java and Western Thailand.
Description
The Indonesian religious landscape has been long identified as an instance of super-diversity “from within”. The chapter investigates how recent social-economic patterns and religious revivals have further complexified this picture. It follows the reformulation of a Javanese ancestorial ritual as a platform for religious coexistence, in a super-diversifying countryside.