History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia
Nine international researchers contribute ten essays examining the ways that Cambodian ideas and practices of religion—specifically, those of the dominant population, the Khmer—relate to the ideas and institutions that have shaped the country as a social and political body. All of the authors are part of a new generation of scholars of Cambodia who began their primary research on Cambodia in the 1990s, when political developments created new openings for Western researchers in the country....
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Introduction1ICambodian religion and the historical construction of nation1The future of Cambodia's past : a messianic middle-period Cambodian royal cult132Khmer Identity and Theravada Buddhism403Making a religion of the nation and its language : the French protectorate (1863-1954) and the Dhammakay63IIThe icon of the leper king4The suffering of kings : substitute bodies, healing, and justice in Cambodia915Stec Gamlan and Yay Deb : worshiping kings and queens in Cambodia today113IIIThe ethnography of contemporary Cambodian religion6Khmer Buddhism, female asceticism, and salvation1337A medium possession practice and its relationship with Cambodia Buddhism : the Gru Parami1508Clay into stone : a modern-day tapas'170IVThe transnationalism of Cambodian religion9Locating the transnational in Cambodia's Dhammayatra19710The spirit cult of Khleang Moeung in Long Beach, California213
