This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai 'urbanity'; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possi
This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai 'urbanity'; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possi
Dr J.L.Taylor, author of Forest Monks and the Nation-State (1993) is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. His research and work experiences are in critical theory and practice of planned culture change and the transformation of rural society, the development discourse and anthropology, ethno-ecology, and Thai Buddhism.
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Contents: Thai Buddhism in postmodernity Buddhist modernities, heresy and hybridization: Thailand's Thammakaai movement New Buddhism: copying, and the art of the imagination Buddhist cyber-worlds and changing urban space Nation, embodiment, and the charisma of a Thai saint Kammathaan monks, tradition and sites of memory Sanctification of place, power and mobility Conclusion/beginning Bibliography Index.
Contents: Thai Buddhism in postmodernity Buddhist modernities, heresy and hybridization: Thailand's Thammakaai movement New Buddhism: copying, and the art of the imagination Buddhist cyber-worlds and changing urban space Nation, embodiment, and the charisma of a Thai saint Kammathaan monks, tradition and sites of memory Sanctification of place, power and mobility Conclusion/beginning Bibliography Index.
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