Learning to See the Satsana as a Religion

Learning to See the Satsana as a Religion

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  • Author: Sarah D. Calhoun
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204


Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

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  • Author: Brooke Schedneck
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • ISBN: 0295748931
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 243

Temples are everywhere in Chiang Mai, filled with tourists as well as saffron-robed monks of all ages. The monks participate in daily urban life here as elsewhere in Thailand, where Buddhism is promoted, protected, and valued as a tourist attraction. Yet this mountain city offers more than a fleeting, commodified tourist experience, as the encounters between foreign visitors and Buddhist monks can have long-lasting effects on both parties. These religious contacts take place where economic motives, missionary zeal, and opportunities for cultural exchange coincide. Brooke Schedneck incorporates fieldwork and interviews with student monks and tourists to examine the innovative ways that Thai Buddhist temples offer foreign visitors spaces for religious instruction and popular in-person Monk Chat sessions in which tourists ask questions about Buddhism. Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand also considers how Thai monks perceive other religions and cultures and how they represent their own religion when interacting with tourists, resulting in a revealing study of how religious traditions adapt to an era of globalization.


Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism

Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism

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  • Author: Björn Bentlage
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004329005
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 574

This edited volume on religious dynamics features source texts from all over Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, which show original authors’ thoughts on religion as they the shared challenges of an age dominated by imperialism and colonialism.


Regions and National Integration in Thailand, 1892-1992

Regions and National Integration in Thailand, 1892-1992

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  • Author: Volker Grabowsky
  • Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • ISBN: 9783447036085
  • Category : 19c
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

"Contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Southeast Asia Studies at Passau University in June 1992"--Pref.


Education in Thailand

Education in Thailand

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  • Author: Gerald W. Fry
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811078572
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 744

This interdisciplinary book offers a critical analysis of Thai education and its evolution, providing diverse perspectives and theoretical frameworks. In the past five decades Thailand has seen impressive economic success and it is now a middle-income country that provides development assistance to poorer countries. However, educational and social development have lagged considerably behind itsglobally recognized economic success. This comprehensive book covers each level of education, such as higher and vocational/technical education, and such topics as internationalization, inequalities and disparities, alternative education, non-formal and informal education, multilingual education, educational policy and planning, and educational assessment. The 25 Thai and 8 international contributors to the volume include well-known academics and practitioners. Thai education involves numerous paradoxes, which are identified and explained. While Thailand has impressively expanded its educational system quantitatively with much massification, quality problems persist at all levels. As such, the final policy-oriented summary chapter suggests strategies to enable Thailand to escape “the middle income trap” and enhance the quality of its education to ensure its long-term developmental success.


Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change

Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change

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  • Author: David K. Linnan
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317105826
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 474

This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source of legitimacy if not modernization? But by the same token, whose version of modernization will predominate absent a Western monopoly on change? There are now legal development alternatives, especially from Asia, so we need a better way to ask the right questions of different approaches primarily in (non-Western) Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, plus South America. Incoming waves of change like the 'Arab spring' lie on the horizon. Meanwhile, debates are sharpening about law's role in economic development versus democracy and governance under the rubric of the rule of law. More than a general survey of law and modernization theory and practice, this work is a timely reference for practitioners of institutional reform, and a thought-provoking interdisciplinary collection of essays in an area of renewed practical and scholarly interest. The contributors are a distinguished international group of scholars and practitioners of law, development, social sciences, and religion with extensive experience in the developing world.


Tearing Apart the Land

Tearing Apart the Land

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  • Author: Duncan McCargo
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501702912
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region, hundreds of interviews conducted during a year's research in the troubled area, and unpublished Thai-language sources that range from anonymous leaflets to confessions extracted by Thai security forces, McCargo locates the roots of the conflict in the context of the troubled power relations between Bangkok and the Muslim-majority "deep South."McCargo describes how Bangkok tried to establish legitimacy by co-opting local religious and political elites. This successful strategy was upset when Thaksin Shinawatra became prime minister in 2001 and set out to reorganize power in the region. Before Thaksin was overthrown in a 2006 military coup, his repressive policies had exposed the precariousness of the Bangkok government's influence. A rejuvenated militant movement had emerged, invoking Islamic rhetoric to challenge the authority of local leaders obedient to Bangkok.For readers interested in contemporary Southeast Asia, insurgency and counterinsurgency, Islam, politics, and questions of political violence, Tearing Apart the Land is a powerful account of the changing nature of Islam on the Malay peninsula, the legitimacy of the central Thai government and the failures of its security policy, the composition of the militant movement, and the conflict's disastrous impact on daily life in the deep South. Carefully distinguishing the uprising in southern Thailand from other Muslim rebellions, McCargo suggests that the conflict can be ended only if a more participatory mode of governance is adopted in the region.


Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence

Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence

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  • Author: Duncan McCargo
  • Publisher: NUS Press
  • ISBN: 9789971693626
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Since January 2004, the three Muslim-dominated provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in the Thai south have been ablaze with political violence. This title examines the reasons behind the unrest in south Thailand from a variety of perspectives.


Asian Review

Asian Review

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  • Category : Asia
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 646


Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures Across National Boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia

Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures Across National Boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia

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  • Author: Yukio Hayashi
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  • Category : Architecture, Dong
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336