Peter A. Jackson: Deities and Divas

Cover: 9788776943080 | Deities and Divas | Peter A. Jackson (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar's largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities.

Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment.

The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.

Zusammenfassung

Peter A. Jackson is Emeritus Professor in Thai cultural history at the Australian National University. Over the past four decades, he has written extensively on religion, gender and sexuality in modern Thailand as well as critical approaches to Asian area studies.

Benjamin Baumann is an assistant professor at the University of Heidelberg. His ethnographic work examines rural lifeworlds, socio-cultural identities and local language games in Thailand's lower Northeast.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9788776943080
ISBN-10:	8776943089
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Peter A. Jackson Benjamin Baumann
Redaktion:	Jackson, Peter A. Baumann, Benjamin
Hersteller:	NIAS Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Abbildungen:	44 images
Maße:	17 x 152 x 229 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter A. Jackson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2022
Gewicht:	0,473 kg