Worshipping the Great Moderniser: (Record no. 3335)

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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field PMNP
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250609112020.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789971694296
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency PMNP
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency Kutubkhanah Diraja
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 959.3035092
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 3524
Personal name Stengs, Irene
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Worshipping the Great Moderniser:
Remainder of title King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Irene Stengs
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Singapore
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. NUS Press Publication
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 316
Other physical details 229mm x 153mm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In Thailand the globalizing urban culture associated with the economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to an alienating anomie. In the slipstream of this boom, an immense cult took shape around King Chulalongkorn the Great (r.1868-1910) that reworked the idea of Buddhist kingship, making it the pivot of the modern Thai social cosmos and creating a new foundation for Thai identity.<br/><br/>Worshipping the Great Moderniser explores the contemporary appeal of King Chulalongkorn and considers what this ruler's unprecendented popularity says about present-day Thai society. Arguing that the exalted expectations of modern Buddhist kingship are a product of the ambitions and anxieties of Thailand's expanding middle class, Irene Stengs compares the popular image of King Chulalongkorn with that of the present king, the highly venerated King Bhumibol Adulyadej, to show that while modern Buddhist kingship and current ideas of Thainess draw on traditional idioms, they are highly modern. This examination of the social imaginary surrounding Thai kingship and Thainess during the past century and a half yields an intriguing amalgam of ideas concerning popular religion, Buddhist kingship, nationalism, and material culture.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 2762
Topical term or geographic name entry element Monarchy
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