Muslim Merit-making in Thailand's Far-South
This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic in...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Dordrecht
Springer Science+Business Media B. V
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | Muslims in Global Societies Series
4 SpringerLink Bücher |
| Further subjects: | B
Design / Humanities / Arts
B Religion (General) B Anthropological linguistics B Regional planning B Anthropology |
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Cover Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Buchausg. u.d.T.: 978-94-007-2484-6 |
| Summary: | This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal 'ibadat. Concerning the rationale This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal 'ibadat. Concerning the rationale |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 9400724853 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2485-3 |