AuthorTaylor, Jim, 1950-
TitleBuddhism and postmodern imaginings in Thailand : The religiosity of urban space / James Taylor
Imprint Farnham, England : Ashgate, c2008
Descript vi, 244 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Buddhism
  2. social aspects
  3. Buddhism -- Social aspects -- Thailand
  4. Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
  5. Sociology
  6. Urban -- Thailand

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Thailand and ASEAN Information Center (6th Floor)[TAIC] 78425 CHECK SHELVES
Arts LibraryBQ566 T243B 2008 CHECK SHELVES
Arts LibraryBQ566 T243B 2008 CHECK SHELVES