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Author Holt, John, 1948-

Title Spirits of the place : Buddhism and Lao religious culture / John Clifford Holt
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description xiii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index
Subject Buddhism -- Laos.
Spirits -- Laos.
Religion and sociology -- Laos.
SUBJECT Laos http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128712 -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663
LC no. 2009014399
ISBN 9780824833275 hardcover : cover alkaline paper