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A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgment; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Author's Note; Introduction; 1 Context and Challenges; Introduction; Context and Challenges of Modernization; The World Stage; The National Stage; The Village as a Contested Space; The Karen of Dokdaeng in a Situated and Contested Space; Location, History and Population; Matrilineal and Matrilocal; Beliefs and Rituals; Villages as Contested Space; Taxonomy; Policies of Dispossession; Grassroots Agency for Sustained Struggle; Conclusion; Notes.
2 Theoretical Framework on Sacredness and SustainabilitySacredness: A Cultural Notion and Tool of Negotiation; Sacredness Relegated by Modernity; Sacredness: Nature, Place and Ritual; Nature; Place; Rituals; Sacredness: A Tool of Negotiation; Sacredness in Relation to Sacred Space; Village-Space: Site of Local Knowledge and Wisdom; Sustainability: A Discourse with a History; An Overview; UN's Discourse on Sustainability; Critique of UN's Discourse on Sustainability; An Emergent Discourse on Sustainability; A Working Definition; Sustainability as a Multifaceted Discourse; Conclusion; Notes.
3 Sustaining Indigenous Religio-Cultural TraditionsFocused Conversation: Rationale and Presuppositions; Aims; Specific Areas; Understanding of Sacredness; Local understanding of Taj Thi Ta Tau, Ywa and Spirit; Local Understanding of Sustainability; Crucial Options; Organic Farming Is Sustainable; Sustainability Involves Conservation; Contrasting Understanding; Complementary Understanding; Sustainability of Beliefs and Rituals; Sustainability of Ritual Performers; Recourse to Additional Means; Sustainability Among the Young; Interrelationship Between Sacredness and Sustainability.
Karenization: A Dynamic Process in the Village-SpaceMutual Adaptation; Adaptation of Concept and Place; Change in Ritual Meaning; Recreate Traditional Rituals; An Emergent Overview; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Indigenous Cosmologies of Sustainability; Sustainability of the Ancestral Homeland; Knowledge of Soil; Knowledge of Rice and Land Use; Knowledge of the Forest; Knowledge of Water; Knowledge of Rotational Farming; Knowledge of the Months in the Cycle of Rice Production; Knowledge of Terraces; Knowledge of Certain Sites; Knowledge of Certain Trees as Abodes of the Spirits.
Knowledge of Certain RegulationsKaren's Cosmology of Sustainability; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The Ensuing Challenges and Critiques; Ritual Reconstruction for Liberative Struggle; Negotiating the External Challenges; Negotiating the Internal Tension; Relational Ethics of Reverence; This-Worldly Everyday Mysticism; Critique of Excessive Anthropocentrism; Notion of the Human; Implication for the Sciences, Religions and Theology; Grounding Discourses and Praxis in Mysticism; Critique of the Phenomenology of Religion; Critique of Sustainable Development; Critique of the Prevalent Notion of Space.
2 Theoretical Framework on Sacredness and SustainabilitySacredness: A Cultural Notion and Tool of Negotiation; Sacredness Relegated by Modernity; Sacredness: Nature, Place and Ritual; Nature; Place; Rituals; Sacredness: A Tool of Negotiation; Sacredness in Relation to Sacred Space; Village-Space: Site of Local Knowledge and Wisdom; Sustainability: A Discourse with a History; An Overview; UN's Discourse on Sustainability; Critique of UN's Discourse on Sustainability; An Emergent Discourse on Sustainability; A Working Definition; Sustainability as a Multifaceted Discourse; Conclusion; Notes.
3 Sustaining Indigenous Religio-Cultural TraditionsFocused Conversation: Rationale and Presuppositions; Aims; Specific Areas; Understanding of Sacredness; Local understanding of Taj Thi Ta Tau, Ywa and Spirit; Local Understanding of Sustainability; Crucial Options; Organic Farming Is Sustainable; Sustainability Involves Conservation; Contrasting Understanding; Complementary Understanding; Sustainability of Beliefs and Rituals; Sustainability of Ritual Performers; Recourse to Additional Means; Sustainability Among the Young; Interrelationship Between Sacredness and Sustainability.
Karenization: A Dynamic Process in the Village-SpaceMutual Adaptation; Adaptation of Concept and Place; Change in Ritual Meaning; Recreate Traditional Rituals; An Emergent Overview; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Indigenous Cosmologies of Sustainability; Sustainability of the Ancestral Homeland; Knowledge of Soil; Knowledge of Rice and Land Use; Knowledge of the Forest; Knowledge of Water; Knowledge of Rotational Farming; Knowledge of the Months in the Cycle of Rice Production; Knowledge of Terraces; Knowledge of Certain Sites; Knowledge of Certain Trees as Abodes of the Spirits.
Knowledge of Certain RegulationsKaren's Cosmology of Sustainability; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The Ensuing Challenges and Critiques; Ritual Reconstruction for Liberative Struggle; Negotiating the External Challenges; Negotiating the Internal Tension; Relational Ethics of Reverence; This-Worldly Everyday Mysticism; Critique of Excessive Anthropocentrism; Notion of the Human; Implication for the Sciences, Religions and Theology; Grounding Discourses and Praxis in Mysticism; Critique of the Phenomenology of Religion; Critique of Sustainable Development; Critique of the Prevalent Notion of Space.