- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 In Place of Ritual
- 2 The City and the Pagoda
- 3 Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World
- 4 Global and Religious
- 5 The Muharram Procession of Mumbai
- 6 Urban Processions
- 7 Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul
- 8 Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds
- 9 The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown
- 10 Dealing with the Dragon
- 11 Contested Religious Space in Jakarta
- 12 Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
- 13 From Village to City
- 14 The Politics of Desecularization
- 15 Parallel Universes
- 16 The Flexibility of Religion
- 17 Cultivating Happiness
- 18 Other Christians as Christian Others
- 19 Aspiring in Karachi
- 20 Can Commodities be Sacred?
- 21 Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s
- 22 The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
- 23 Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization Among Twelver Shi‘ites in Mumbai
- 24 Internet Hindus
- Contributors
- Index
Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
- Chapter:
- (p.219) 12 Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
- Source:
- Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
- Author(s):
James Taylor
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter examines how Buddhist practices in Thailand articulate a present moment and hint at possible futures. In particular, it considers Bangkok's religious space, a product of the new varieties of Buddhism engendered in the Thai metropolis, as a pastiche of relations and intersections that challenge religious authority and tradition. The chapter first discusses urban religious experience in the Thai context, religious modernity, and the religiosity of urban space. It argues that, secularization aside, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in sacred space in Bangkok. It also explores new identities as a product of urbanization interconnected with social geographies of transnational capital and world interstate relations.
Keywords: religious space, Thailand, Buddhism, metropolis, religious modernity, religiosity, urban space, sacred space, Bangkok, urbanization
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 In Place of Ritual
- 2 The City and the Pagoda
- 3 Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World
- 4 Global and Religious
- 5 The Muharram Procession of Mumbai
- 6 Urban Processions
- 7 Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul
- 8 Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds
- 9 The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown
- 10 Dealing with the Dragon
- 11 Contested Religious Space in Jakarta
- 12 Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
- 13 From Village to City
- 14 The Politics of Desecularization
- 15 Parallel Universes
- 16 The Flexibility of Religion
- 17 Cultivating Happiness
- 18 Other Christians as Christian Others
- 19 Aspiring in Karachi
- 20 Can Commodities be Sacred?
- 21 Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s
- 22 The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
- 23 Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization Among Twelver Shi‘ites in Mumbai
- 24 Internet Hindus
- Contributors
- Index