Reassessin g Ritu al in Sou th east Asian Stu dies
CSEAS, Ky oto Un iv ersity an d ARI, Nation al Un iv ersity of Sin g apore
Febru ary 25-26, 2013
BIO-NOTES of Paper Presen ters

Julius Bautista is an anthropologist who, as Senior Lecturer, teaches Religious
Studies at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University ofSingapore. He is co-appointed as an associate at the Religion and Globalization inAsian Contexts Cluster of the Asia Research Institute, NUS. His scholarship focuseson Christian practices, beliefs and institutions in Asia. He is co-editor, with Francis
Khek Gee Lim, of Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict (Routlege,2009) and author of Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Santo Niño de Cebu
(Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010).
R. Michael Feener is Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization ResearchCluster at the Asia Research Institute and Associate Professor of History at the National
University of Singapore. He has also taught at Reed College, and the University ofCalifornia, Riverside. He has been a visiting professor/ research fellow at Kyoto
University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the University ofCopenhagen, The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and the International Institutefor Asian Studies. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was trained in Islamic Studies andforeign languages at Boston University as well as in Indonesia, Egypt, and the Yemen.
His books include Shari`a and Social Engineering, Muslim Legal Thought in ModernIndonesia, Shi`ism and Beyond: `Alid Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia (with ChiaraFormichi), From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh(with Patrick Daly & Anthony Reid), Mapping the Acehnese Past (with Patrick Daly &Anthony Reid), Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies of South and Southeast Asia(with Terenjit Sevea), Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions(with Mark Cammack), and Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives.
Francis Lim teaches in the Division of Sociology at NTU. His research interests
revolve around religion and tourism in various Asian cultures and societies. In the last
few years he has been conducting fieldwork among the Tibetan Catholic communities
in Yunnan and Tibet, as well as doing research on the growth of the Yiguan Dao
religion from bases in Taiwan and Singapore. Francis is the author of Imagining theGood Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya (Brill 2008),
co-editor of Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict (Routledge2009), editor of Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia (Brill2009), and Christianity in Contemporary China: Socio-cultural Perspectives (Routledge2012). His latest research project is on the use of social media and its impact onreligious practices in China.
Daniel PS Goh is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, National
University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative historical sociology, culturalstudies and urban studies. His latest research project is the study of heritage politics,urban aspirations and global city making in Hong Kong, Penang and Singapore. His
work on urbanisms include lead co-editing a symposium in the International Journal ofUrban and Regional Research, co-editing a special issue in Urban Studies, and articles
published in the British Journal of Sociology, Space and Culture, and Inter-Asia
Cultural Studies.
Yoko Hayami is Professor at Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Asan anthropologist, I have worked among minorities, especially Karen, in Thailand andBurma. Topics of interest include religion, ethnic minority, the hills and plains dynamics
in Mainland Southeast Asia, gender and family, all against the background of national aswell as global changes in the region. Major publications in English: Families in Flux
in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology and Practice (Co-edited with Junko Koizumi,
Ratana Tosakul, and Chalidaporn Songsamphan) Silkworm Press and Kyoto University
Press 2012. Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious
Dynamics among Karen Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press 2004.
“Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in
Karen State” Journal of Asian Studies.Vol.70 No.3.2011.
John Clifford Holt (Ph.D., Chicago) is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities
in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (USA.
Among the eleven books he has published to date are The Sri Lanka Reader: History,Culture, Politics (Duke, 2011); Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao ReligiousCulture (Hawaii, 2009); The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics andCulture (Columbia, 2004); The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art andPolitics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka (Oxford, 1996); and Buddha in the Crown:Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka (Oxford, 1991), which wasselected for the American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in 1992.

In 2002, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Peradeniya inSri Lanka, and in 2007 was named Alumnus of the Year by the University of Chicago
Divinity School. He is currently writing Theravada Traditions: Buddhism and Ritual
Cultures in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
Janet Hoskins is Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives onHistory, Calendars and Exchange (University of California, 1996 Benda Prize inSoutheast Asian Studies), Biographical Objects: How Things Tells the Stories ofPeople’s Lives (Routledge 1998) and the contributing editor of Headhunting and theSocial Imagination in Southeast Asia (Stanford 1996), A Space Between Oneself andOneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (Donizelli 1999) and Fragments fromForests and Libraries (Carolina Academic Press 2001). She has also produced andwritten three ethnographic documentaries, including “The Left Eye of God: Caodaism
Travels from Vietnam to California”.
Tatsuki Kataoka is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area
Studies, Kyoto University As an anthropologist, I have worked among minorities, Lahu
and later Chinese, in Thailand and neighboring countries. Topics of interest include
religion, ethnic minority, history and politics in the peripheries of Mainland Southeast
Asia. Major publications Monotheists on the Thai Hills: State, Ethnicity, and Culture
among the Lahu Christians (in Japanese) Hukyosha 2007. “Religion as non-Religion:
The Place of Chinese Temples in Phuket, Southern Thailand” Southeast Asian Studies
Vol.1, No.3 (in print).
Mario Lopez is Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He is ananthropologist who has resided in Japan for over 10 years. He has conducted long term
field work on migrants settled in Japan from Latin America (Peru) and from thePhilippines. His main research interests lie in looking at the migration of people toJapan. He has been working on the impact of transnational marriage migrants inJapanese society and how they negotiate everyday life. His other research interest islooking at the role of religion as a supportive framework for overseas migrants. His
final research interest is analysing the transnationalization of care and how nations areformulating strategies to procure care workers.
Justin McDaniel's (PhD, Harvard University, 2003) research foci include Lao, Thai,
Pali and Sanskrit literature, Southeast Asian Buddhism, manuscript studies, andSoutheast Asian history. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words won theHarry Benda Prize for the best first book in Southeast Asian Studies. His second book isa study on material culture and ritual in Thai Buddhism: The Lovelorn Ghost and theMagic Monk. He has publishe scholarly articles on manuscript studies, Pali grammar,
Thai and Lao ritual, Buddhist art, and Indian literature in Southeast Asia. He hasreceived grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, Mellon Foundation,
Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, PACRIM, the Social Science ResearchCouncil, among others. He is the co-editor of the journals: Buddhism Compass andJournal of Lao Studies, and is the Chair of the Southeast Asian Studies Council of theAssociation of Asian Studies. He has won teaching and advising awards at Harvard
University, Ohio University, and the University of California at Riverside. In 2012 hewas named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Ryoko Nishii (Dr.) is Professor at Research Institute for Languages and Culture of Asiaand Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She is an anthropologist who hasstudied Buddhist-Muslim relationships in Southern Thailand for twenty years. She has
written a monograph in Japanese "Death and Practical Religion" Sekaisisosha
2001,

has alsoeditedmanybooks.

Amongpublished articles inEnglishare"Emergence and transformation of peripheral identity: Sam Sam on theThai-Malaysian border " in Andrew Turton (ed.) *Civility and savagery: social identity
in Tai states.* London: Curzon Press, pp.180-200, 2000 and "Social Memory asit Emerges: A Consideration of the Death of a Young Convert on the West Coast inSouthern Thailand”, in Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes (eds.), Cultural Crisisand Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos London: RoutledgeCurzon:231-242, 2002.

Sehat Ihsan Shadiqin is a lecturer in Sufism at State Institute for Islamic Studies inBanda Aceh, Indonesia. Graduated Master program in Islamic Thought in Banda Aceh.
Currenly I’m studying Cultural Anthropology in University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Ihave conducted some researches both in Aceh and Java in several topics. My article has
been published in some Journals in Aceh. Some books have been published for threeyears; Tasawuf Aceh (Sufism of Aceh), Adat dan Dinamika Politik di Aceh (Local
Custome in Politics Aceh Dinamic), and Kosmosufism: Islam antara Imajinasi Metafisis
dan Realitas Kehidupan Sosial (Cosmosufism: Islam between Metafisical Imaginationand Social Reality).
Yasuko Yoshimoto’s research interests are ethnicity, religious identity, and, thesuccession and the use of Islamic knowledge with specific reference to the Cham people
in Vietnam. Based on more than two years of field work with the Cham people inSouth-central Vietnam, she examined the indigenous calendars in contemporary society(A study of the almanac of the Cham in South-Central Vietnam in THE CHAM OF
VIETNAM HISTORY, SOCIETY AND ART、2011), the religious practices and thepractitioners recognitions of Ramadan (film-‘Another type of observance in Ramadan:
Ramuwan ritual of Cham Bani in Vietnam’ , 2009) , and the feature of thestate-recognized “Islam” in Vietnam (A Study of the Hồi giáo Religion in Vietnam:Witha Reference to Islamic Religious Practices of Cham Bani in Southeast Asian Studies,2012).