In accordance with Thai conceptions of Buddhist kingship, Thai rulers have felt obliged to devote considerable energies towards the promotion and protection of Buddhism. Over the past century (and more), state laws have been instituted and bureaucratic agencies established to regulate and implement such promotional and protective activities. This article outlines some broad trends and patterns in the bureaucratization of Buddhism in Thailand, and discusses their implications for religious freedom. It argues that although Buddhism has been extensively bureaucratized, the implications for religious freedom have been less severe than one might perhaps expect, owing not least to the fact that Buddhism is a monastic religion. However, recent dev...
This article theorizes new urban religio-scapes in metropolitan Bangkok, a city space of contradicto...
Khruba (venerable monks) have consistently played a meaningful role in local Buddhist communities of...
The article is a case study, which is concerned with the relations between religion and politics in ...
Deciding the character and level of official patronage of religion are fundamental questions for all...
MÉRIEAU, E. (n.d.). Buddhist Constitutionalism in Thailand: When Rājadhammā Supersedes the Constitut...
In response to a dual crisis of legitimacy, ruling political elites in Thailand have, since the 2014...
This essay explores the extent to which Thailand’s secular legal system reinforces the imagined divi...
Is Thailand a secular state or a religious state? Has the Thai state experienced a process of secula...
Historically speaking, Buddhism has made a deep impact upon the Thai society from as early as the Su...
Despite the often-repeated assertion that Buddhism and politics are, or at least must be, separate m...
One of the elements in the idea of independence is the religious freedom for an individual to choose...
This chapter applies theories on political theology of sovereignty to contemporary Buddhist Thailand...
In Thailand, the relations between religion and politics are still grounded in ancient world-views w...
Thailand continues to undergo a process of political modernization, moving from a feudal to a fully-...
International audienceThis article examines the level of religious mobilization of Buddhism in post-...
This article theorizes new urban religio-scapes in metropolitan Bangkok, a city space of contradicto...
Khruba (venerable monks) have consistently played a meaningful role in local Buddhist communities of...
The article is a case study, which is concerned with the relations between religion and politics in ...
Deciding the character and level of official patronage of religion are fundamental questions for all...
MÉRIEAU, E. (n.d.). Buddhist Constitutionalism in Thailand: When Rājadhammā Supersedes the Constitut...
In response to a dual crisis of legitimacy, ruling political elites in Thailand have, since the 2014...
This essay explores the extent to which Thailand’s secular legal system reinforces the imagined divi...
Is Thailand a secular state or a religious state? Has the Thai state experienced a process of secula...
Historically speaking, Buddhism has made a deep impact upon the Thai society from as early as the Su...
Despite the often-repeated assertion that Buddhism and politics are, or at least must be, separate m...
One of the elements in the idea of independence is the religious freedom for an individual to choose...
This chapter applies theories on political theology of sovereignty to contemporary Buddhist Thailand...
In Thailand, the relations between religion and politics are still grounded in ancient world-views w...
Thailand continues to undergo a process of political modernization, moving from a feudal to a fully-...
International audienceThis article examines the level of religious mobilization of Buddhism in post-...
This article theorizes new urban religio-scapes in metropolitan Bangkok, a city space of contradicto...
Khruba (venerable monks) have consistently played a meaningful role in local Buddhist communities of...
The article is a case study, which is concerned with the relations between religion and politics in ...