2008/11/01 by Martin Ramstedt · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Religion and Society Interactions #Religion, Society, and Development #Socioeconomic Development in Asia
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021911808001769
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The article focuses on the spiritual capital negotiated in the Indian-Indonesian networks of an Indian Hindu missionary currently living in Bali. These networks bridge different social groups and thereby foster—like the American mainline Protestant churches examined by Robert Putnam—the conditions for transnational community building and commerce. The value of spiritual capital is gauged against the backdrop defined by the rise of Hindu nationalism and a new economic agenda in India since the end of the 1980s. Parallel to these developments, Indonesian Hindus began to grow wary of the growing influence of Islam and Islamism in their country.