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  • 8 - The Galactic Polities of Southeast Asia

  • from Part IV - Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia
  • Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    The World Imagined
    Published online:
    18 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 253-283

  • Summary

    The “galactic empires” were never dominated by a single polity, nor was this region united by any monotheistic religion. Nevertheless, collective beliefs created a shared political and social order throughout Southeast Asia. This regional international society was based on the view that the social and political world should be constructed so as to mirror the religious and cosmological realm. Political authority radiated from a sacred political and geographic center, with authority dissipating concentrically from the center outward.