What's in a Name? Agama Hindu Bali in the Making

Michel Picard (1)

1 LASEMA - Laboratoire Asie du sud-est et monde austronésien

In this paper, I investigate the debates among the Balinese intelligentsia about their religion during the colonial period. These debates focused upon two sets of interdependent questions: Firstly, how is "religion" (agama) connected to "tradition" (adat), and how to differentiate between their respective domains? And, second, how is Agama Bali linked to Agama Hindu, that is, how is Balinese Hinduism related to Indian Hinduism?

Mots clés: Religion; tradition; Balineseness; Agama Bali Hindu; Agama Hindu Bali

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Michel Picard. What's in a Name? Agama Hindu Bali in the Making. Martin Ramstedt. Hinduism in Modern Indonesia. A minority religion between local, national, and global interests, RoutledgeCurzon, pp.56-75, 2004, IIAS Asian Studies Series. ⟨halshs-00196705⟩