Ritual Tattooing and the Creation of New Buddhist Identities: An Inquiry into the Initiation Process in a Burmese Organization of Exorcists

The Manaw Seittokpad congregation, an organization of Burmese exorcists with headquarters in Bago, presents some unique features, such as a rigorous registration procedure during the initiation process. Exorcism is linked to superhuman figures, or weikza, at the center of a religious domain often ch...

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主要作者: Brac de La Perrière, Bénédicte 1958- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2017]
In: Religion and society
Year: 2017, 卷: 8, 發布: 1, Pages: 129-144
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Manaw seittokpad / 入會 / 刺青
Further subjects:B Burmese Buddhism
B 入會
B Rituals
B internal conversion
B Exorcism
B Manaw Seittokpad
在線閱讀: Volltext (Publisher)
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