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Deities and Divas 2022 - Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond (Paperback)
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Deities and Divas 2022 - Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Gendering Asia, 15
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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.
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