Name: Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond (en Inglés)
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Author: Jackson, Peter A. ; Baumann, Benjamin
ISBN: 9788776943073

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Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Autor

Jackson, Peter A. ; Baumann, Benjamin

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

313

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9788776943073

Categorías

Asia suroriental
Historia de asia
Vida y práctica budistas
Aspectos religiosos de la sexualidad, el género y las relaciones

Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond (en Inglés)

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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.