Suchergebnisse

Phra Bang : venerating the Buddha image in Lao religious culture -- Asala Perahara : powers of the Buddha relic in Sri Lanka -- Upasampada and pabbajja : ordination in Thai Buddhist contexts -- Kathina : making merit in modern Myanmar (Burma) -- Pchum Ben : caring for the dead ritually in Cambodia

Powers of the place : Buddhism and the spirit cults of Muang Lao -- Interventions from afar: nonspiritual powers in place -- Questions of place: religious culture in a post-revolutionary space -- Commodities of the place: ritual expressions and the marketing of religious culture -- The spirit(s) of the place: Buddhists and contemporary Lao religion reconsidered -- App. 1. Transformations of the Ramayana -- App. 2. The cult of Khwan

"This book gives a voice to the women, mostly Malay Muslim, of the Deep South of Thailand who, in the face of state intimidation or the violence of militant insurgency resulting from ethno-religious conflict, have drawn on their religious faiths to sustain the well-being of their families in the face of losing fathers, husbands, sons or brothers to the violence"--