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9780824826666

History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780824826666

  • ISBN10:

    0824826663

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

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Summary

This volume showcases some of the most current and exciting research being done on Cambodian religious ideas and practices by a new generation of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The different contributors examine in some manner the relationship between religion and the ideas and institutions that have given shape to Cambodia as a social and political body, or nation.

Author Biography

John Marston is professor of Southeast Asian studies at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City Elizabeth Guthrie received her Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on the Transliteration System ix
Introduction
JOHN MARSTON AND ELIZABETH GUTHRIE
1(12)
I. Cambodian Religion and the Historical Construction of Nation
1. The Future of Cambodia's Past: A Messianic Middle-Period Cambodian Royal Cult
ASHLEY THOMPSON
13(27)
2. Khmer Identity and Theravada Buddhism
ANNE HANSEN
40(23)
3. Making a Religion of the Nation and Its Language: The French Protectorate (1863-1954) and the Dhammakay
PENNY EDWARDS
63(28)
II. The Icon of the Leper King
4. The Suffering of Kings: Substitute Bodies, Healing, and Justice in Cambodia
ASHLEY THOMPSON
91(22)
5. Stec Gamlan' and Yay Deb: Worshiping Kings and Queens in Cambodia Today
HANG CHAN SOPHEA
113(20)
III. The Ethnography of Contemporary Cambodian Religion
6. Khmer Buddhism, Female Asceticism, and Salvation
ELIZABETH GUTHRIE
133(17)
7. A Medium Possession Practice and Its Relationship with Cambodian Buddhism: The Gru Parami
DIDIER BERTRAND
150(20)
8. Clay into Stone: A Modern-Day Tapas'
JOHN MARSTON
170(27)
IV. The Transnationalism of Cambodian Religion
9. Locating the Transnational in Cambodia's Dhammayatra
KATHRYN POETHIG
197(16)
10. The Spirit Cult of Khleang Moeung in Long Beach, California
TERI SHAFFER YAMADA
213(14)
References 227(22)
Contributors 249(4)
Index 253

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