Capitalism magic Thailand : modernity with enchantment / / by Peter A. Jackson
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Jackson Peter A.
|
| Titolo: |
Capitalism magic Thailand : modernity with enchantment / / by Peter A. Jackson
|
| Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, , [2022] |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 133.43 |
| Soggetto topico: | Magic - Economic aspects - Thailand |
| Wealth - Thailand - Religious aspects | |
| Cults - Thailand | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | By 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 Th. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Capitalism magic Thailand |
| ISBN: | 981-4951-97-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795669503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |