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 |