Inside Southeast Asia: Religion Everyday Life Cultural Change

The main stations on my path through Southeast Asia are Java, Thailand, and the Philippines . In 1969-70, had my first opportunity to do research in Java, which was followed up with frequent visits during the early 1970s when I worked in Bangkok for the United Nations. In Late 1973, I returned to Europe to write my dissertation about mysticism and everyday life in Java. The end of 1975 saw me back in Thailand; when I left again in late 1978, I also left behind the manuscript about my interpretation of everyday life in Thai society.

Around the turn of the 1980s, I had three opportunities to stody cultural change in Java which stimulated my interest in cultural dynamics, as I have recorded elswhere in my exploations of the relationship between individual and society in Java.

Part 1 Major ideas
Part 2 Everyday life
Part 3 Dynamics of culture