LEADER 04391nam 22005412 450 001 9910960825203321 005 20230901021919.0 010 $a9789814951975 010 $a9814951978 024 7 $a10.1355/9789814951975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6893957 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6893957 035 $a(CKB)21325726800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1302006195 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_101443 035 $a(DE-B1597)652376 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789814951975 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789814951975 035 $a(Perlego)4253760 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789814951098 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921325726800041 100 $a20230526d2025|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapitalism Magic Thailand $eModernity with Enchantment /$fPeter A. Jackson 210 1$aSingapore :$cISEAS?Yusof Ishak Institute,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2023). 311 08$a9789814951098 311 08$a9814951099 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Images -- $tNote on Transliteration, Referencing and Honorific Titles -- $tIntroduction: Modern Magic and Prosperity in Thailand -- $tKey Terms: Debates, Theories and Contexts -- $tPart One Why Religious Modernity Trends in Two Opposing Directions -- $t1. Fundamentalism against Magic: The Contradictions of Religious Modernity -- $t2. Buddhist in Public, Animist in Private: Semicolonial Modernity and Transformations of the Thai Religious Field -- $tPart Two Thailand?s Cults of Wealth -- $t3. Context, Hierarchy and Ritual: Theorizing the Total Thai Religious Field -- $t4. Thailand?s Cults of Wealth: Royal Spirits, Magic Monks, Chinese and Indian Deities -- $t5. Empowered Amulets and Spirit Possession: Material and Ritual Dimensions of the Thai Cults of Wealth -- $t6. The Symbolic Complex of Thai Cults of Wealth -- $tPart Three How Modernity Makes Magic -- $t7. Capitalism, Media and Ritual in the Enchantment of Thai Modernity -- $tConclusion Conclusion: The Thai Cults of Wealth into the Twenty-first Century -- $tGlossary of Thai and Buddhist Terms -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aBy studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship - which have emerged together in Thailand's dynamic religious field in recent decades - Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour's account of modernity as a condition fractured between rationalizing ideology and hybridizing practice is expanded to explain the apparent paradox of new forms of magical ritual emerging alongside religious fundamentalism across a wide range of Asian societies. In Thailand, novel and increasingly popular varieties of ritual now form a symbolic complex in which originally distinct cults centred on Indian deities, Chinese gods and Thai religious and royal figures have merged in commercial spaces and media sites to sacralize the market and wealth production. Emerging within popular culture, this complex of cults of wealth, amulets and spirit mediumship is supported by all levels of Thai society, including those at the acme of economic and political power. New theoretical frameworks are presented in analyses that challenge the view that magic is a residue of premodernity, placing the dramatic transformations of cultic ritual centre stage in modern Thai history. It is concluded that modern enchantment arises at the confluence of three processes: neoliberal capitalism's production of occult economies, the auraticizing effects of technologies of mass mediatization, and the performative force of ritual in religious fields where practice takes precedence over doctrine. 606 $aMagic$xEconomic aspects$zThailand 606 $aCults$zThailand 615 0$aMagic$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aCults 676 $a133.43 700 $aJackson$b Peter A.$0126264 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960825203321 996 $aCapitalism magic Thailand$93992570 997 $aUNINA