Buddhism 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