Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia

by Erik W. Davis and Erik Davis

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231169183
• ISBN13: 9780231169189
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"