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Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia

By Erik Davis

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780231540667
DOI
10.7312/davi16918
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2671945 bytes)
Pages
320\317
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 23:25:49

Description

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically recasts attitudes toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Radically recasts attitudes toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism’s interactions with local religious practice and reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself.

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