LEADER 03855nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910781985203321 005 20230126202529.0 010 $a1-283-30070-2 010 $a9786613300706 010 $a0-231-52754-3 024 7 $a10.7312/mcda15376 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056074 035 $a(EBL)908884 035 $a(OCoLC)758823354 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646614 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11402216 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646614 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10717303 035 $a(PQKB)11497897 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000340785 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908884 035 $a(DE-B1597)459116 035 $a(OCoLC)979628726 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231527545 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502309 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330070 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056074 100 $a20101025d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lovelorn ghost and the magical monk$b[electronic resource] $epracticing Buddhism in Modern Thailand /$fJustin Thomas McDaniel 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15377-5 311 $a0-231-15376-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transcription -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Monks and Kings -- $t2. Texts and Magic -- $t3. Rituals and Liturgies -- $t4. Art and Objects -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aStories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time. Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures. He follows embodiments of the ghost and monk in a variety of genres and media, including biography, film, television, drama, ritual, art, liturgy, and the Internet. Sourcing nuns, monks, laypeople, and royalty, he shows how relations with these figures have been instrumental in crafting histories and modernities. McDaniel is especially interested in local conceptions of being "Buddhist" and the formation and transmission of such identities across different venues and technologies. Establishing an individual's "religious repertoire" as a valid category of study, McDaniel explores the performance of Buddhist thought and ritual through practices of magic, prognostication, image production, sacred protection, and deity and ghost worship, and clarifies the meaning of multiple cultural configurations. Listening to popular Thai Buddhist ghost stories, visiting crowded shrines and temples, he finds concepts of attachment, love, wealth, beauty, entertainment, graciousness, security, and nationalism all spring from engagement with the ghost and the monk and are as vital to the making of Thai Buddhism as venerating the Buddha himself. 606 $aBuddhism$xSocial aspects$zThailand$xHistory 606 $aBuddhist monks$zThailand 615 0$aBuddhism$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aBuddhist monks 676 $a294.34309593 700 $aMcDaniel$b Justin$01025788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781985203321 996 $aThe lovelorn ghost and the magical monk$93811648 997 $aUNINA LEADER 05063oam 2200565I 450 001 9910971783303321 005 20251117090044.0 010 $a1-351-91858-3 010 $a1-315-24928-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315249285 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356370 035 $a(OCoLC)975223738 035 $a(OCoLC)974642579 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139817 035 $a(BIP)63366937 035 $a(BIP)7293863 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081218 100 $a20180706e20162002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMedieval frontiers $econcepts and practices /$fedited by David Abulafia and Nora Berend 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (308 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $a"Selected papers of a colloquium held Nov. 1998 at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, with several additional articles."--T.p. verso. 300 $aFirst published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0522-1 311 08$a1-351-91859-1 327 $a1. Introduction : seven types of ambiguity, c. 1100-c. 1500 / David Abulafia -- 2. Crossing the frontier of ninth-century Hispania / Ann Christys -- 3. Emperors and expansionism : from Rome to Middle Byzantium / Jonathan Shepard -- 4. Byzantium's eastern frontier in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Catherine Holmes -- 5. Were there borders and borderlines in the Middle Ages? The example of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Ronnie Ellenblum -- 6. Government and the indigenous in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- 7. Latins and Greeks on crusader Cyprus / Peter W. Edbury -- 8. Genuensis civitas in extremo Europae : Caffa from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century / Michel Balard -- 9. Granting power to enemy gods in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades / Rasa Mazeika -- 10. The blue Baltic border of Denmark in the high middle ages : Danes, Wends and Saxo Grammaticus / Kurt Villads Jensen -- 11. Hungary, 'the gate of Christendom' / Nora Berend -- 12. Boundaries and men in Poland from the twelfth to the sixteenth century : the case of Masovia / Grzegorz Mysliwski -- 13. The frontiers of church reform in the British Isles, 1170-1230 / Brendan Smith -- 14. Neolithic meets medieval : first encounters in the Canary Islands / David Abulafia. 330 $aIn recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction? 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zEurope$vCongresses 607 $aEurope$xHistorical geography$vCongresses 607 $aEurope$xBoundaries$xHistory$yTo 1500$vCongresses 607 $aMediterranean Region$xHistorical geography$vCongresses 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a911/.4 701 $aAbulafia$b David$0437420 701 $aBerend$b Nora$0984401 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971783303321 996 $aMedieval frontiers$94468257 997 $aUNINA