A Spirit Map of Bangkok: Spirit Shrines and the City in Thailand
A Spirit Map of Bangkok: Spirit Shrines and the City in Thailand
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曼谷的精神地图：泰国的精神神社和城市
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2015
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A. A. Johnson
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A. A. Johnson
正如许多泰国佛教学者所表明的那样，泰国的宗教领域融合了万物有灵论和婆罗门教的元素，形成了新的融合。但是这种宗教制度并不是天衣无缝的，而是建立在内部的矛盾和分裂上的，上层阶级和下层阶级之间，农村和城市之间。通过对城市精神崇拜的分析，除了泰国官方的精神神殿和城市的持续发展和扩张外，我还解决了自然、死亡和事故对规划城市景观的意外破坏。在这里，我研究了一位灵媒和她的信徒在曼谷精神城市景观中的夜间朝圣。我问曼谷的“精神地图”在曼谷不断扩张的背景下为分析开辟了什么，并为她和她的精神信徒解决了城市宗教愿望的本质。最后，从巴巴的杂糅思想中，我认为这种媒介的曼谷对既定的权力等级提出了挑战，这种挑战关注于不寻常的（例如事故现场），作为超越的出现的证据。
As many scholars of Thai Buddhism have shown, Thailand’s religious sphere incorporates animist and Brahminist elements into a new fusion. But this religious system is not seamless, rather it rests upon internal contradiction and division, between upper and lower class, rural and urban. Alongside the official spirit shrines devoted to the Thai state and the continued progress and expansion of the city, via an analysis of urban spirit cults, I address the unexpected irruption of nature, death, and accident into the planned urban cityscape. Here, I examine one nocturnal pilgrimage by a spirit medium and her devotees across Bangkok’s spiritual cityscape. I ask what this ‘spirit map’ of Bangkok opens up for analysis in the context of those areas of Bangkok swallowed up by its continuous expansion, and address the nature of urban religious aspirations for her and her spirit’s devotees. Ultimately, drawing from Bhabha’s idea of hybridity, I argue that this medium’s Bangkok presents a challenge to established hierarchies of power, a challenge that focuses on the unusual (e.g. accident sites) as evidence for the appearance of the transcendent.