1. The Subtitle of the Journal: Zwischen Synkretismus und Orthodoxie: Zur religiösen Dynamik Südostasiens / Between Syncretism and Orthodoxy. On the Religious Dynamics in Southeast Asia.
2. Author Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
As local conflict in the border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat becomes ever more cruel, Buddhists and Muslims in the Songkhla Lake region in the South of Thailand coexist peacefully and have developed fascinating rituals with mixed religious elements as a way to cope with religious difference. In this article, I focus on the encompassing value-idea of ancestor worship to show the differential incorporation of Theravada Buddhism and Islam in ritual practice. I develop a typology of Buddhist-Muslim exchange systems, distinguishing the types of integration, mere coexistence and conflict. I argue that although the Thai national cultural sphere and translocal Islamic missionary movements increasingly shape the lifeworlds of Buddhists and Muslims, respectively, putting substantial pressure on ritual, the ongoing continuity and even revitalization of ancestor worship in the ritual domain as well as in healing constitutes a third cultural space that guarantees the reproduction of exchange systems and protects Buddhists and Muslims from the violence that we currently witness in Pattani.
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1. Die Problemstellung 95 1.1 Einleitung 95 1.2 Gemeinsame Räume 97 1.3 Externe Faktoren 99 1.4 Lokale Mehrheitsverhältnisse 100 2. Ansätze und Konzepte 101 2.1 Zentrale Begriffe 101 2.2 Das Integrationsmodell 102 3. Die Austauschbeziehungen 103 3.1 Der Stand der Dinge 103 3.2 Die interkonfessionelle Heirat 104 3.3 Fallbeispiele 106 4. "Ordination für einen Tag": Ein Ritual mit gemischten religiösen Elementen 108 5. Konfessionelle Grenzen überschreitendes Heilen 109 6. Feindseligkeit und Konflikt in Pattani 114 6.1 Interne Kolonialisierung in Pattani 114 6.2 Gewaltanschläge und ihre Auswirkungen auf buddhistisch-islamische Austausch beziehungen in Panare, Pattani 116 7. Resümee 117 Literatur 118
