اشیاء مقدس: تبارشناسی امر مقدس در دین تایلند [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Transliteration, Transcription, and Translation
Vowels and Diphthongs
Consonants
1 Introduction
Asking for Boons: Making and Fulfilling Vows
“Holy Things” and the Limits of Religious Taxonomy
Moving Beyond Syncretism
Buddhist Inclusivism
The Genealogy of Saksit
Part I Contextualizing Holy Things
2 Buddhism as Implicit Theology
Implicit Theologies
The Implicit Theology of Devas in Vedic India
Buddhism’s Intervention in Implicitly Theological Discourse in Ancient India
Modern Disenchantment and Buddhism’s Theological Project
The Cosmological Agency of Buddhist Implicit Theology
3 Situating Siam in History
The Sanskrit Cosmopolis and the Śaiva World
The Collapse of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis and the Rise of Persianate and Arabic Cosmopoleis
The Ripple Effects of the Persianate Cosmopolis and the Rise of the Pali Cosmopolis
The Historical Origins of Siam
Continuities Between the Sanskrit and Pali Cosmopoleis
4 The Genealogy of the Sacred
How Saksit Became “Holy”
The Literary Corpus for This Study
Saksit in Siamese Literature
The Saiyasāt Context of Saksit
Saiyasāt, Magic, and Religion
Summary
Part II Deconstructing the Syncretism of Holy Things
5 Spirits
The Chinese Roots of Tai “Spirits”
Historicizing “Indigenous” Tai Spirits
“Local Spirits” in Thailand Today
The Modern Discourse of Religion and the Construction of “Local Religion”
6 Gods
Saiyasāt and Extra-Pali Discourses in Sukhōthai and Ayutthayā
The Bangkok Restoration and Interest in Hinduism in Prerevolutionary Siam
The Ērāwan Shrine and Rise of Brahmā Worship in Thailand
Hindu Enthusiasm in Contemporary Thailand
Saiyasāt, the Gods, and the Work of World Religions
7 Buddha Images
Early Evidence for the Propitiation of Buddha Images in Siam
The Culture of Buddha Images and Their Miraculous Power in Lānnā
Explaining Miraculous Buddha Relics Within the Pali Imaginaire
Luang Phǭ Sōthǭn and the Origins of Modern Kānbonbānsānklāo
The Changing Meaning of Saksit and Modern Kānbonbānsānklāo
8 Conclusion
Appendix A Explicit Theology From Plato to the Abrahamic Traditions
Appendix B Corpus of Siamese Literary Works Consulted
Corpus of Sukhōthai Inscriptions Consulted
Works of Siamese Literature Consulted
Notes
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index