Spirits of the place [electronic resource] : Buddhism and Lao religious culture / John Clifford Holt.
By: Holt, John.
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BookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009Description: xiii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Buddhism -- Laos | Spirits -- Laos | Religion and sociology -- Laos | Laos -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 294.3/35 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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