Overview
- An first ethnographic description of lived Islam among Urban Malays in South Thailand
- A much needed counter-balance to descriptions of Islam in South Thailand offered by political scientists and security specialists
- An contemporary account of the impact that Thai and Islamic influences have had on Islam in South Thailand
- A study that brings together interests in linguistic anthropology and the anthropology
Part of the book series: Muslims in Global Societies Series (MGSS, volume 4)
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About this book
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 for merit-making, merit-makers are motivated by both a desire to ensure their own comfort in the grave and personal vindication at judgment, as well as to transfer merit for those already in the grave, who are known to the merit-maker. While the rhetoric elements of Muslim merit-making reveal Thai influence, its ritual elements confirm the local impact of reformist activism.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Merit-making in Thailand's Far-South
Authors: Christopher M. Joll
Series Title: Muslims in Global Societies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2485-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2484-6Published: 03 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9523-5Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2485-3Published: 02 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2452-1361
Series E-ISSN: 2543-053X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Linguistic Anthropology