Capitalism Magic Thailand : : Modernity with Enchantment /

Capitalism Magic Thailand : : Modernity with Enchantment / / Peter A. Jackson.

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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...

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Jackson, Peter A.,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (381 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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