344 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the questions: Do these folk beliefs make up a separate religious system? Or is there a subtle merging of supernaturalism and Buddhism, a kind of... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface to the Expanded Edition, I INTRODUCTION, II THE TYPES OF SUPERNATURALISM, III THE THIRTY-SEVEN NATS, IV ILLNESS AND SUPERNATURALISM, V SUPERNATURAL PRACTITIONERS, VI CONCLUSION, References Cited, Index
Biography
Melford E. Spiro
