… and the University of Michigan. His research explores the cultural politics of popular religion in Thailand, the … of Bangkok professional spirit mediums, and the socio-cultural dynamics underlying claims to authority and charisma … including: “Contemporary Buddhism and Magic,” “The Cultural Politics of the Supernatural in Theravada Buddhist …
… talk, I consider their representations of physicality as a cultural response to a new kind of biopolitics that took … will also interrogate the extent to which the notion of cultural singularity can still be applied to …