Instructors: Dr. Martina Heinschke
Event type: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as: Culture and Society
Hours per week: 2
Credits: 6,0
Language of instruction: English
Min. | Max. participants: - | 20
More information: This module will examine the controversial and often very tense relationship between religion and popular culture. We will survey a number of popular culture forms that are and have been very popular in the Malay world and discuss how these forms are related to Islam. In connection to the surveys we will examine secondary literature to give the necessary means to question and critically assess the relationship between religion and popular culture. Biodata: Jan van der Putten is Professor Austronesistik in the Department of Southeast Asia (Asien-Afrika-Institut) at the University of Hamburg where he teaches on Southeast Asian literatures and cultures. Traditional Malay writings is one of his main research projects affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in Hamburg. In general, his research explores the meaning of traditional and popular Malay texts and their distribution among peoples and exchange between cultures.
Learning objectives: To improve the students’ abilities to read and interpret Malay To study indigenous ideas surrounding the important concept of ‘power’
