The special volume sets out to explore the complexities arising from contemporary intersections of religion and the economy as the later apply to public projects of transferring value to the poor for the purpose of alleviating their suffering, and improving their condition. It provides evidence of the new significance that religious interventions in the field of poverty alleviation are assuming in that part of the world in the era of neoliberal reform, with its case studies drawing upon

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... phic materials from Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand in the north, to Malaysia and Indonesia in the south. This is the accepted version of a forthcoming article that will be published by Sage in Southeast Asia Research: http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/sera Copyright: Konstantinos Retsikas. Reprinted with permission of Sage. Accepted version downloaded from SOAS Research Online: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24263/