Making Sense of Thailand's “Merit-Making” Muslims: Adoption and Adaption of the Indic in the Creation of Islamicate Southern Thailand

This article presents an alternative to the analysis of Thai merit-making rhetoric (tham bun) that associates it with Theravada Buddhism and syncretic anomalies. A review of the processes through which Islam became an authentically Southeast Asian religion suggests that this merit-making conundrum i...

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Main Author: Joll, Christopher M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2014]
In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2014, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 303-320
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BJ Islam
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Indic
B Muslim-Buddhist relations
B Muslims in Thailand
B MERIT-MAKING
B Islamicate
B Southern Thailand
B anthropology of Islam
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