INTERPRETING THAI RELIGIOUS CHANGE - TEMPLES, SANGHA REFORM AND SOCIAL-CHANGE

Authors
OCONNOR RA
Citation
Ra. Oconnor, INTERPRETING THAI RELIGIOUS CHANGE - TEMPLES, SANGHA REFORM AND SOCIAL-CHANGE, Journal of Southeast Asian studies, 24(2), 1993, pp. 330-339
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
History,"Area Studies
Journal title
Journal of Southeast Asian studies → ACNP
ISSN journal
00224634
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
330 - 339
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4634(1993)24:2<330:ITRC-T>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Attributing Thai religious change to recent societal changes - urbaniz ation, a new middle class, modernity - obscures how today's religion a rises from last century's Sangha reforms that changed the temple's pla ce in Thai society. As reforms drove popular religion out of the templ e, centralization pulled regional religions into the capital to create today's ''free market'' in religion.