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Thailand's First Revolution? The Role of Religious Mobilization and ‘The People’ in the Ayutthaya Rebellion of 1688 |
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| Author |
Strathern, Alan (著)
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| Source |
Modern Asian Studies
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| Volume | v.56 n.4 |
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| Date | 2022.07 |
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| Pages | 1295 - 1328 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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http://www.journals.cambridge.org
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: University of Oxford, UK. |
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| Abstract | In the 1680s, King Narai, ruler of the cosmopolitan kingdom of Ayutthaya, was the subject of competing French and Persian attempts to convert him to monotheism. These attempts were not only embarrassing failures; they also helped to precipitate a coup in 1688, in which Phetracha forcefully intervened to place himself on the throne and eject French influence from the realm. But to what extent did the execution of the coup depend on popular involvement? And what ideals and emotions seem to have animated this participation? After pondering the role of ethnicity and xenophobic sentiment, this article considers the construction of powerful discourses of Buddhist intellectual opposition to Christianity, the role of the sangha in the orchestration of the coup itself, and then considers in more detail the extent to which ‘the people’ demonstrated some kind of autonomous political agency. Lastly, it considers whether the events of the coup and its immediate aftermath were shaped by anti-Christian emotion. As a movement with conservative and restorative aims, 1688 was not a ‘revolution’ in the modern sense, but it may have ushered in an enlarged sense of popular investment in the legitimation of royal contenders associated with the defence of Buddhism. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 1295
Introduction 1295
Anti-French feeling and ethnicity among the khunnang and the people 1300
Buddhist boundary-making 1306
The intellectual neutralization of monotheism 1307
The role of the sangha in the rebellion 1313
The agency of ‘le peuple’ 1315
The persecution of Christianity? 1318
Conclusion 1327
Acknowledgments 1328 |
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| ISSN | 0026749X (P); 14698099 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1017/S0026749X21000159 |
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| Hits | 66 |
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| Created date | 2024.06.18 |
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| Modified date | 2024.06.20 |
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