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Deathpower - Buddhism`s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia by Erik W. Davis

Description: Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches 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.Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.

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EAN: 9780231169189

UPC: 9780231169189

ISBN: 9780231169189

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Book Title: Deathpower - Buddhism`s Ritual Imagination in Camb

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Deathpower : Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Publication Year: 2015

Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Death & Dying, Sociology / General, Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhist

Item Height: 1 in

Item Weight: 22.9 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, History

Author: Erik Davis

Item Length: 9.5 in

Item Width: 6.4 in

Format: Hardcover

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