A Spirit Map of Bangkok: Spirit Shrines and the City in Thailand
As many scholars of Thai Buddhism have shown, Thailand's religious sphere incorporates animist and Brahminist elements into a new fusion. But this religious system is not seamless, rather it rests upon internal contradiction and division, between upper and lower class, rural and urban. Alongsid...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2015]
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In: |
Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 293-308 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bangkok
/ Buddhism
/ Shrine
/ Magical thinking
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | B
the city
B Spirits B Urban Religion B Shrines B Mediumship B PILGRIMS & pilgrimages B Religion B Social aspects B Thailand B BANGKOK (Thailand) B Buddhism B Hybridity B Cults |
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