Ebook: Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Author: Erik Davis
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Language: English
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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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