Sökning: "Thai Buddhists"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Thai Buddhists.

  1. 1. Negotiating Thainess : Religious and National Identities in Thailand's Southern Conflict

    Författare :Marte Nilsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The southern Thai conflict; Thai nation-building; Thainess; Patani Pattani; ethnicity; nation; religion; legitimacy; multiple identities; Malay Muslims; Thai Buddhists; interethnic relations.;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how people express religious and national identities in the conflict-ridden Patani region of southern Thailand. In a historical framework of disputes over territory and political legitimacy, where identities have developed in response to an emerging Thai nation, it is of relevance to understand the dynamics of these identities and to disclose how local people perceive themselves, their communities and society at large. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand

    Författare :Claudia Merli; Ing-Britt Trankell; Jan Ovesen; Rosalind C. Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; biopolitics; minorities; Muslims; Southern Thailand; childbirth; medical practices; circumcision; embodiment; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. LÄS MER

  4. 3. De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand

    Författare :Pierre Wiktorin; Tord Olsson; Olav Hammer; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Humanities; Humaniora; anthropology of religion; tourism; habitus; late orientalism; social fields; private and public identity; exchange theory; modernity; gender; Wat Phra Dhammakaya; reformist monks; sangha-laypeople relationship; Thailand; Theravada Buddhism; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation, based on 14 months of fieldwork carried out in central, northern and north-eastern Thailand, focuses on laypeople's demands on contemporary Thai Theravada sangha. In the aftermath of the economic breakdown in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha took place. LÄS MER