The material embeddedness of the divine in the objects and sites of popular religion in Asia
establishes the grounds for a conflict between devotees and heritage practitioners–the same …

By failing to document popular belief in the supernatural attributes of religious sites and by
drawing up conservation management plans that fail to attend to such beliefs, current …

The category “heritage” is quickly gaining importance for the study of religion, not least in
East Asia. Since the 1990s, Japanese governments, entrepreneurs, and ngo s have …

This collection of essays explores the practices of South Asian religions related to various
types of material objects–images, ritual objects, commodities, printed texts, buildings, and …

When a sacred object or act is given a heritage status its sacredness is affected. Likewise,
when a heritage status is given to any object or act, this object or act becomes sacralized …

Nearly twenty years ago I wrote a review article (Byrne 1991) which discussed the West's
hegemonic dominance of global heritage practice. I had been particularly influenced in this …

In Southeast Asia, archaeology has only been practiced since the nineteenth century and
the discourse of heritage is similarly recent. This does not, of course, mean that prior to the …

First as an archaeologist with an interest in non-modern epistemologies and religion, and
later as a scholar of religion with a background in archaeology, I have long found the …

Heritage is a cultural identity to be reflected in the purview of individual, unique and multiple
layers of pluralism, especially with respect to religion, at least in Oriental cultures that …

LAUREL KENDALL* VU THI THANH TAM** NGUYEN THI THU HUONG***... from the point
of view of the anthropology of art, an idol in a temple believed to be the body of the divinity …