| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 261 pages) |
| Contents |
Half title, full title, copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Transcription; Preface; Part One: Locating Weikza Cults in the Burmese Religious Landscape; Chapter 1: On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism; Chapter 2: The Longevity of Weikza; Chapter 3: Spirits versus Weikza: Two Competing Ways of Mediation; Part Two: Defenders of Buddhism: Weikza Rituals for Safeguarding Religion; Chapter 4: The World Emperor's Battle against the Evil Forces |
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Chapter 5: From Bricks to Pagodas: Weikza Specialists and the Rituals of Pagoda-BuildingPart Three: Technologies and Figures of Power: Weikza Specialists as Diagram-Makers, Diviners, and Exorcists; Chapter 6: In Pursuit of the Sorcerer's Power: Sacred Diagrams as Technologies of Potency; Chapter 7: Healing through Weikza: Therapeutic Cults in the Arakanese Context; Chapter 8: Powerful Yet Powerless, Powerless Yet Powerful: Being an Exorcist in Burma; Postscript: What Kind of Buddhism is That?; Glossary; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhist cults -- Burma -- Congresses
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Weikza -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Buddhist cults
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Weikza
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Burma
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, Alicia Marie, editor
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Rozenberg, Guillaume, editor
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Brac de La Perriere, Benedicte, editor
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| ISBN |
9789971698065 |
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9971698064 |
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9971697807 |
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9789971697808 |
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