Music Among Ethnic Minorities in Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
pp. 987-1004
Author(s):  
Håkan Lundström
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Minorities

Christianity as a Majority Religion of the Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar: Exploring Triple Dialogue in the Currents of World Christianity

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
David Thang Moe
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
Mission Period ◽  
Minority Religion ◽  
World Christianity

It is common to say that Christianity is a minority religion in Asia. Yet this article argues that Christianity is a majority religion of the ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia in general and Myanmar in particular and that one dimension of dialogue is not adequate in an age of world Christianity. Using a ‘triple dialogue’ as a methodology, the article explores three of the most salient issues of Myanmar ethnic minorities in the currents of world Christianity. First, the article revisits a cross-cultural relationship between foreign missionaries and locals in a colonial period and how Western mission impacts on Christians’ relationship with people of other faiths. Second, it explores the current issues of interreligious relationship between Christians and Buddhists and how Christian-Buddhist interaction plays a role in developing Christianity as a Myanmar local religion in a postcolonial mission period. Finally, it examines an intercultural hospitality between the ethnic Christian migrants and Western Christians and a ‘glocal’ relationship between migrants and their homeland Christians in a post-Western Christian period.

Ethnicity and the Language Used as a Medium of Instruction in Schools

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Milada Kalab
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Field Work ◽  
National Language ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academic Year

AbstractThis paper is based mainly on personal experiences in two very different areas. Between 1954 and 1956 I was employed as a teacher in Manipur State in India. I taught for one academic year at the Somdal Ningkhalen High School near Ukhrul in the Tangkhul Naga area and for three months at the Zeliangroung High School at Tamenglong. I was expelled from there in March 1956. Ten years later I spent ten months in field-work in Cambodia, mainly at Prek Por in Kompong Cham Province. And in 1972 I spent six months in two villages in Surin Province in Thailand. As I was not studying language policy or ethnicity this account will necessarily be sketchy and tentative. What interests me is the difference between the policies in India and in Southeast Asia; while all these states are trying hard to encourage the use of a national language, their emphasis and their policies towards ethnic minorities vary.

The Impact of Missionary Christianity Upon Marginalized Ethnic Minorities: The Case of the Hmong

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tapp
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Christian Conversion ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper combines historical with anthropological evidence on the relationship between Christianity and messianism among the Hmong of Southeast Asia and China. The lack of literacy is a motivating factor in Hmong Christian conversions. Messianism is seen as a reaction to Christian conversion, which encourages the alienation of minority groups.

scholarly journals The Highlander

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Arkotong Longkumer ◽  
Michael Heneise
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Western China ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This is an introduction both of the first issue, and to The Highlander: Journal of Highland Asia itself, setting out the genealogy of ideas, debates and critiques, principally around the concept 'Zomia', that have fostered significant debate and provided the impetus for this project. It is also a call for contributions toward fostering discussion, from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, that elucidate the similarities and differences, generalities and particularities of the myriad histories, languages, cultures, politics, and religions of primarily ethnic minorities living in the upland terrains linking Nepal and the Tibetan plateau with Northeast India, the Pamirs, Western China, and the highland communities of Southeast Asia – a vast, congruous region sometimes referred to as ‘Zomia', or indeed 'Zomia+'

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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