Davis Deathpower

Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-54066-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Radically recasts attitudes toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism’s interactions with local religious practice and reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Getting Sited in Cambodia
2. The Funeral
3. Rice, Water, Hierarchy: The Wild and the Civil
4. Building Deathpower and Rituals of Sovereignty
5. Binding Mighty Death: The Craft and Authority of the Rag Robe in Cambodian Ritual Technology
6. Gifts and Hungry Ghosts
7. Eating Leftovers, Rumors, and Witchcraft
8. Buddhism Makes Brahmanism
Notes
Khmer Glossary
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Erik W. Davis is associate professor of religious studies at Macalester College. His research interests include contemporary religious movements, spirit possession, and the ritualization of ethnic boundaries.