Culture and Communication in Thailand (Communication, Culture and Change in Asia)

Chapter 1 Thai Buddhism, the Mass Media, and Culture Change in Thailand Abstract From a historical perspective, Thai Buddhism is ...

notions of power often borrowed from tantric types of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, and animistic folk beliefs in spirits (Baker ...

1800, according to Hopkins. It refers to the rise of the nation state and the spread of industrialization. The last process, pos ...

full creation, and those who are delighted in creations of others; and four realms of misery: purgatory, animals, suffering ghos ...

Rama I in 1782. The then King warned the Thai subjects not to pay much attention to spirits and magical things while ignoring th ...

King Rama V, with the assistance of his half-brother, the Monk-Prince Vajirananavarorasa, modernized the ecclesiastical educatio ...

Thai social critic, states Thai society has suffered cultural schizophrenia as Thais are trapped in a double bind between Wester ...

Buddhism (Visalo 2003 : 176). Kitiarsa studied the religious practices in the con- temporary modernization period and collected ...

Brahmanism (Malikhao 2007 : 63). Srichampa affirms that Thais have different beliefs (2014: 50–51): Buddhist beliefs, superstiti ...

hymns, listening to sermons; this is the ritual dimension. McGuire points out many symbolic representations of religion in terms ...

Kitiarsa ( 2012 : 66, 67, 92, 102, 118, 126, 143) studied three examples of cults around the spirit of Phumphuang Duangchan, the ...

Individualization can be traced back to the study of Carl Jung’s work on indi- viduation (http://www.mindstructures.com/carl-jun ...

1.4 Conclusion.......................................... Trends of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand conform to the global trend th ...

Couldry, N. (2003).Media rituals. A critical approach. London and New York: Routledge. Crawfurd, J. (1967).Journal of and embass ...

Nachbar, J., Weiser, D., & Wright, J. L. (1978).The popular culture reader. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular ...

Vuttanont, U., Greenhalgh, T., Griffin, M., & Boynton, P. (2006). Smart boys and sweet girls–sex education needs in Thai tee ...

Chapter 2 Analyzing the“Dhammakaya Case” Online Abstract In this chapter, the hybridization of Thai Buddhism in the contemporary ...

Dhammawatee who was defrocked in 1990 on the grounds of making a female follower pregnant; and Phra Pawana Buddho who was arrest ...

Dhammakaya has its own Websites and telecommunication means to connect with devotees. Via its digital communication networks, Dh ...

The latest news that put Wat Phra Dhammakaya on the front page of newspapers is a scandal about the embezzlement of the credit u ...