Giuseppe Bolotta Assistant Professor (Research) in Anthropology at the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University

Philip Fountain is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington

R. Michael Feener is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, and an Associate Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford

1 Transcendence, sacrifice, and aspiration: The political theology of development in Asia - Giuseppe Bolotta, Philip Fountain & R. Michael Feener
2 East of Westphalia: Shaping the body-politic via institutional charisma - Armando Salvatore
3 The yogic ethic and the spirit of development - Sunila S. Kale & Christian Lee Novetzke
4 Managing Karbala: Genealogies of Shia humanitarianism in Pakistan, England and Iraq - Till Mostowlansky
5 From blood, cast in cement: Materialising the political in Thailand - Eli Elinoff
6 The theopolitics of Art: Qur'anic objects and their publics in Indonesia - Kenneth M. George
7 Embodying the late King: Buddhist salvation and the sacrifice of sovereignty at a Bangkok mall - Edoardo Siani
8 Being alone: The political theology of the development citizen - Sam Han
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