A Ritual Community
The Religious Practices of Spirit Mediums Who Worship the Spirit of the Chiang Mai City Pillar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6087225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kazuo Fukuura (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858 |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/sj26-1f |
| OpenAlex | W2098841210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article focuses on the creation of ritual communities through the various collective rituals of the group of spirit mediums who worship the tutelary spirit of the city pillar in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. It explores how these rituals emerge as a manifestation of the group's intrinsic power of accomplishment, adaptation, and invention. Their ritual community demonstrates, in various ways, the diversity of spirit worship in Chiang Mai throughout the year. Moving through ritual spaces at will, these mediums utilize their independent and performative power in order to actively develop their religious practices
Aesthetics · Art · Chiang mai · Ethnology · Pillar · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Cambodian History and Society · Engineering · Philosophy · Religious studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |