Journal article
Worldly compromise in Thai Buddhist modernism
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.50(2), pp.179-201
2019
Abstract
Buddhist modernist movements transformed the religious practice and social engagement of one of the world's principal faiths in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These movements produced diverse effects on Asian societies which, despite generic similarities, are best understood in particular socio-historical contexts. This article examines the work of a group of young Thai monks and laymen who had an ambitious aim to morally improve and empower people; and the practical adaptation of this impulse in a society in transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional democracy in the 1930s. Like many modernist movements, their work was innovative. But it also was an inheritance of religious and political history, and the Thai modernist case thus shows a contradiction between novelty and custom that was resolved in a way that blunted the movement's reformist energy.
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- Title
- Worldly compromise in Thai Buddhist modernism
- Authors/Creators
- A. Subrahmanyan (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.50(2), pp.179-201
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Identifiers
- 991005541936607891
- Copyright
- © 2019 The National University of Singapore
- Murdoch Affiliation
- College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.146 Anthropology
- 6.146.2281 Southeast Asian Politics
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- Asian Studies
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- Social Sciences, general