New buddhist movements in Thailand: An 'individualistic revolution', reform and political dissonance
The paper is essentially a background study of two controversial urban-based Buddhist movements which appeared since the beginning of the seventies, Santi Asok and the Thammakai Foundation. Both religious movements developed as a consequence of rapid changes in the macro-social milieu involving an a...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1990
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Journal of Southeast Asian studies
Year: 1990, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 135-154 |
| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Buddhism B Association B Religious community B Thailand B Religious renewal B Internal policy |