New buddhist movements in Thailand: An 'individualistic revolution', reform and political dissonance
The paper is essentially a background study of two controversial urban-based Buddhist movements which appeared since the beginning of the seventies, Santi Asok and the Thammakai Foundation. Both religious movements developed as a consequence of rapid changes in the macro-social milieu involving an a...
| Published in: | Journal of Southeast Asian studies |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1990
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Journal of Southeast Asian studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Buddhism B Association B Religious community B Thailand B Religious renewal B Internal policy |
| Summary: | The paper is essentially a background study of two controversial urban-based Buddhist movements which appeared since the beginning of the seventies, Santi Asok and the Thammakai Foundation. Both religious movements developed as a consequence of rapid changes in the macro-social milieu involving an articulate aspiring new Thai bourgeoisie. Both "urban cults", on their own ways, are predicating a radical critique of the enduring social order; a call for collective "innerwordly" activism and "individualistic" reflexive response to normative institutional paradigms. (DÜI-Sen) |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4634 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies
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