Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand

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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Thai religious studies;urban ethnography;forest monasticism;religious hybridity;social transformation Thailand;ritual practice analysis;post-crisis urban religiosity Thailand