Introduction. Laos and Its Religious Culture -- 1. Powers of the Place: Buddhism and the Spirit Cults of Muang Lao -- 2. Interventions from Afar: Nonspiritual Powers in Place -- 3. Questions of Place: Religious Culture in a Post-revolutionary Space -- 4. Commodities of the Place: Ritual Expressions and the Marketing of Religious Culture -- 5. The Spirit(s) of the Place: Buddhists and Contemporary Lao Religion Reconsidered -- App. 1. Transformations of the Ramayana -- App. 2. The Cult of Khwan -- Plates follow page 194
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