Buddhism And The Spirit Cults In North East Thailand by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
An ethnographic study of northeastern Thai religious life that analyzes how Theravada Buddhist doctrines and institutions coexist, interact, and are reinterpreted alongside local animist spirit cults; it traces the rituals, mediumship, healing practices, and village ceremonies through which ghost beliefs and spirit worship are integrated into everyday moral and social order, showing how ideas of karma, merit-making, authority, and social conflict are negotiated in practice and how popular religion adapts to changing economic and political conditions.
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- 1970
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- Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North‑East Thailand
- Buddhism and the Spirit Cults of North‑East Thailand
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