National Identity and the Geo-Soul: Spiritually Mapping Siam

• المؤلف الرئيسي: RICKS, Jacob Isaac
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• الموضوعات: Nationalism; national characteristics; Thailand; Asian Studies; Political Science; Politics and Social Change
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1405

This paper investigates the re-centring of religious identity within the geo-body in the developing world through the case study of Thailand, formerly Siam. Although by 1932, monarchic rule and colonial powers had demarcated the ‘geo-body’ of Siam, the national soul was not yet fully cultivated. Aft...