Making Sense of Thailand's “Merit-Making” Muslims: Adoption and Adaption of the Indic in the Creation of Islamicate Southern Thailand
This article presents an alternative to the analysis of Thai merit-making rhetoric (tham bun) that associates it with Theravada Buddhism and syncretic anomalies. A review of the processes through which Islam became an authentically Southeast Asian religion suggests that this merit-making conundrum i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2014]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2014, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 303-320 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BJ Islam BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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Indic
B Muslim-Buddhist relations B Muslims in Thailand B MERIT-MAKING B Islamicate B Southern Thailand B anthropology of Islam |
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