Spirits of the place [electronic resource] : Buddhism and Lao religious culture / John Clifford Holt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.), mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.3/35 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2067 .H66 2009eb
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Contents:
Powers of the place : Buddhism and the spirit cults of Muang Lao -- Interventions from afar: nonspiritual powers in place -- Questions of place: religious culture in a post-revolutionary space -- Commodities of the place: ritual expressions and the marketing of religious culture -- The spirit(s) of the place: Buddhists and contemporary Lao religion reconsidered -- App. 1. Transformations of the Ramayana -- App. 2. The cult of Khwan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-329) and index.

Powers of the place : Buddhism and the spirit cults of Muang Lao -- Interventions from afar: nonspiritual powers in place -- Questions of place: religious culture in a post-revolutionary space -- Commodities of the place: ritual expressions and the marketing of religious culture -- The spirit(s) of the place: Buddhists and contemporary Lao religion reconsidered -- App. 1. Transformations of the Ramayana -- App. 2. The cult of Khwan.

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