National Identity and the Geo-Soul: Spiritually Mapping Siam

• Main Author: RICKS, Jacob Isaac
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Nationalism; national characteristics; Thailand; Asian Studies; Political Science; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1405
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...