The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Zakaria Faizah
The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Zakaria Faizah What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and…
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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Zakaria Faizah
What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene--"the human epoch."Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of the Batak people in upland Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to Islam and Christianity during the long nineteenth century. Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements?
Using a wide array of sources such as family histories, prayer She finds that the process helped shape social structures that voided the natural world of enchantment, ushered in a cash economy, and placed the power to remake local landscapes into the hands of a distant elite.