{"title":"Buddhist visions, dreams, and possession trance: spiritual authority, ritual diversity and religious innovation in Thailand","authors":"Peter A. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2025.2532791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2025.2532791","url":null,"abstract":"Thai religious and ritual life is diverse and dynamic, drawing on a wide range of influences including Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Brahmanism and spirit cults. A notable feature of Thai religiosity is its productivity, with a continual increase in the number of new spiritual figures at the centre of devotional cults that often have no direct precedents in established forms of ritual. I describe the processes that support the expansion of the Thai religious pantheon, as new spirits and gods emerge alongside established supernatural figures. I explore the question of how founders and followers of devotional cults authorize the worship of novel deities, spirits, and Buddha images. Drawing on origin narratives from followers of new ritual movements, I argue that both lay and monastic access to the field of oneiric space, extraordinary experiences that include meditation visions, dreams and possession trance, is central to notions of spiritual authority in Thailand and is an important source of the ongoing proliferation of religious and ritual diversity in the country.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"33 3","pages":"271-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147883248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regionalism as anti-colonialism: imaginaries of area in South East Asian omnibus film and database art","authors":"Elmo Gonzaga","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2369642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2369642","url":null,"abstract":"This article responds to debates about the complicity or outdatedness of regionalism in Area Studies by analyzing creative works by local artists that reimagine South East Asia as ‘area’: Ho Tzu Ny...","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia","authors":"W. Nathan Green, Ian G. Baird","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2331454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2331454","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares rural credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia in order to advance studies on financialization and rural development in South East Asia. In Thailand, the state remains a large ...","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140581001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions","authors":"Sony Karsono","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2327190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2327190","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recycling infrastructures in Cambodia: circularity, waste, and urban life in Phnom Penh","authors":"Lukas Fort","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2333146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2333146","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acculturation orientation and expectation: mapping the labour migration processes of Cham youth in Cambodia","authors":"Steve Kwok-Leung Chan","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2319591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2319591","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-ethnic societies, different cultures interact with each other, and communities often have to consider acculturation strategies. These strategies are fluid and develop across geographical b...","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140115998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The road to Nusantara: process, challenges and opportunities","authors":"Abidin Kusno","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2304482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2304482","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"252 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140099468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating stigmatized motherhood: self-stigma of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand","authors":"Herbary Cheung","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2320235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2320235","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on participant observations and in-depth interviews with twenty-two single mothers with mental illness and four medical workers from a psychiatric hospital in Thailand, this article analyse...","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140072461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOGIE equality bill deliberations in the 18th Congress of the Philippines: a persisting battle against discrimination","authors":"Tracy Mae Ildefonso","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2320819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2320819","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the turbulent process that the House Bill No. 4982, an anti-discrimination bill also known as the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) bill, has undergone...","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"301 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trending Islam: cases from Southeast Asia","authors":"Martin Slama","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2024.2319993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2024.2319993","url":null,"abstract":"Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}