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Capitalism magic Thailand : modernity with enchantment /
By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship--which have emerged together in Thailand's dynamic religious field in recent decades--Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new va...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Images
- Note on Transliteration, Referencing and Honorific Titles
- Introduction: Modern Magic and Prosperity in Thailand
- Key Terms: Debates, Theories and Contexts
- Part One Why Religious Modernity Trends in Two Opposing Directions
- 1. Fundamentalism against Magic: The Contradictions of Religious Modernity
- 2. Buddhist in Public, Animist in Private: Semicolonial Modernity and Transformations of the Thai Religious Field
- Part Two Thailand's Cults of Wealth
- 3. Context, Hierarchy and Ritual: Theorizing the Total Thai Religious Field
- 4. Thailand's Cults of Wealth: Royal Spirits, Magic Monks, Chinese and Indian Deities
- 5. Empowered Amulets and Spirit Possession: Material and Ritual Dimensions of the Thai Cults of Wealth
- 6. The Symbolic Complex of Thai Cults of Wealth
- Part Three How Modernity Makes Magic
- 7. Capitalism, Media and Ritual in the Enchantment of Thai Modernity
- Conclusion Conclusion: The Thai Cults of Wealth into the Twenty-first Century
- Glossary of Thai and Buddhist Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author