Spirits of the place Buddhism and Lao religious culture / [electronic resource] :
John Clifford Holt.
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.
- xiii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.), maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Buddhism--Laos. Spirits--Laos. Religion and sociology--Laos.