Muslims of Thailand social justice Martin Seeger lays out the

Martin Seeger lays out the nuances and varying conceptions of female renunciation in modern Thai Buddhism

High Treason: The Trial of the “Burma Surgeon”

The resulting collection offers an intimate and unusual view of historical Southeast Asia as a society of cosmopolitan cities

but other areas are also examined

”—Volker Grabowsky

Muslims of Thailand social justice Martin Seeger lays out theTranslated by Michael Smithies Thailand is usually closely associated with Buddhism, but since 1998 the country has been one of the observer members of the Islamic Conference Organization, and senior figures in the present and previous governments have been Muslim. Some 8 percent of the population is Muslim, and in the three southernmost provinces of the country they constitute a majority. Islam is ever more visible in Bangkok, where the demographic