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| Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion | ||
| 作者 | McGovern, Nathan (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2024.08.02 |
| 頁次 | 288 |
| 出版者 | Oxford University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://corp.oup.com/ |
| 出版地 | Oxford, London, UK [牛津, 倫敦, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Nathan McGovern is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is the author of The Snake and the Mongoose (2019), a study of the emergence of religious identities in ancient India. He has also published numerous articles on the intersection between Buddhism and Hinduism in ancient India and in Thailand. |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; Thailand; Southeast Asia; Theravada; Southern Asia; religion; syncretism; Hinduism; Pali; Thai |
| 摘要 | Scholars of religion have increasingly rejected the model of religious syncretism, in which apparent deviations from normative practice are explained as the result of a mixture of religions. Nevertheless, there are aspects of Thai Buddhist practice that still stubbornly appear syncretistic, such as the worship of particular Buddha images for mundane boons in the same way as gods and spirits. Moreover, increasingly Thai Buddhists themselves are adopting the language of syncretism, referring to traditional Thai religion as a mixture of local, Hindu, and Buddhist practices. This raises the question: If syncretism is so wrong, then why does it seem so right? Holy Things answers this question through an in-depth study of the worship of spirits, gods, and Buddha images—all known as sing saksit, or “holy things”—in Thailand. It shows that what appears to be syncretism is actually an illusion created by an array of historically transforming and interacting discourses: Pali Buddhist, Sanskritic Hindu, and the modern discourse of religion. Holy Things thus explains not only why a stubborn case of apparent syncretism is actually not so, but also why syncretism seems so appealing in the first place. |
| 目次 | Front Matter Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements Abbreviations Transliteration, Transcription, and Translation 1. Introduction Part I Contextualizing Holy Things 2. Buddhism as Implicit Theology 3. Situating Siam in History 4. The Genealogy of the Sacred Part II Deconstructing the Syncretism of Holy Things 5. Spirits 6. Gods 7. Buddha Images 8. Conclusion End Matter Appendix A Explicit Theology from Plato to the Abrahamic Traditions Appendix B Corpus of Siamese Literary Works Consulted Notes Bibliography Index |
| ISBN | 9780197759912 (E-Book); 9780197759882 (Hardcover); 0197759882 (Hardcover) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197759912.001.0001 |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.01.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.02.26 |
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