Buddhaizing a global city-state: Transnational religious mobilities, spiritual marketplace, and thai migrant monks in Singapore

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-275

  Kitiarsa, Pattana ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Migrant Buddhist monk; Religious mobility; Thai Buddhism in Singapore

Indexed keywords

MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; RACIAL DISPARITY; RELIGION; WORLD CITY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 77951549396     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101003665184     Document Type: Article

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