Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Volker Gottowik -- Modern Spirits -- Spirits in and of Southeast Asia's Modernity -- An Overview -- Peter J. Bräunlein -- The Social Placing of Religion and Spirituality in Vietnam in the Context of Asian Modernity -- Perspectives for Research -- Michael Dickhardt -- Where the Dead Go to the Market -- Market and Ritual as Social Systems in Upland Southeast Asia -- Guido Sprenger -- Modernity and Spirit Possession in Java -- Horse Dance and Its Contested Magic -- Paul Christensen -- Modern Muslims -- Hadhrami Moderns -- Recurrent Dynamics as Historical Rhymes of Indonesia's Reformist Islamic Organization Al-Irsyad -- Martin Slama -- Mubeng Beteng -- A Contested Ritual of Circumambulation in Yogyakarta -- Susanne Rodemeier -- 'Muslim Modernities' in Makassar and Yogyakarta -- Negotiating 'the West' as a Frame of Reference -- Melanie V. Nertz -- Cosmological Battles -- Understanding Susceptibility and Resistance to Transnational Islamic Revivalism in Java -- Thomas Reuter -- Modern Traditions -- Modes of Interreligious Coexistence and Civility in Maluku -- Birgit Bräuchler -- Ethnicity and Violence in Bali -- And What Barong Landung Says about It -- Volker Gottowik -- Contested Moksa in Balinese Agama Hindu -- Balinese Death Rituals between Ancestor Worship and Modern Hinduism -- Annette Hornbacher -- Good Girls -- Christianity, Modernity and Gendered Morality in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra -- Karin Klenke -- Bukit Kasih, the Hill of Love -- Multireligiosity for Pleasure -- Judith Schlehe -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography.