This essay focuses on a form of unidirectional giving current in Theravada Buddhism: the
institution of merit making as practiced in northern Thailand. Many scholars have noted its …

This paper seeks to elucidate the symbolic and coercive dimensions of gift-giving in
contemporary Cambodia. It is argued that gift-giving is enacted in such a way as to make self …

This article presents two separate analyses. The first concerns the structure of conversion to
the Buddhist Compassion Relief Ciji Association (" Ciji") in economic and sociological terms …

This paper examines how a Hindu revitalisation movement addresses the modernisation in
Malaysia. Modernisation entails material development and nation-building, but also the …

The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of
analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into …

Refusal is a political stance. It is an effort, at least minimally, to redefine or redirect certain
outcomes or expectations or relationships. It is, maximally, to reject anticipated reactions or …

If there are any charitable, philanthropic, or welfare-state activities in the de facto states of
insurgent armies, they are generally interpreted in terms of utilitarian motives and the self …

This article focuses on the circulation and consumption of Japanese commodities invested
with an informal, domestic form of spirituality, translated as 'luck'. Tambiah has argued that …

This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals
and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of …

This article attempts to further the study of gifting in India by examining both the donors and
recipients of charity in a contemporary urban context. Considering the case of Anglo-Indians …