| Item Description: | "The articles collected in this volume were the outcome of a panel organized for the international Burma-Myanmar Studies Conference: Burma in the Era of Globalization held in July, 2010 in Marseille, France. The panel, entitled "Encountering the Weikza: the Unity and Diversity of a Burmese Religious Phenomenon," was the first opportunity for a collective discussion on weikza cults since this major aspect of Burmese religion became an object of research in the 1950s. The chapters have been published separately as journal articles but are collected here as the first sustained analysis of weikza cults and practices in recent decades"--Acknowledgements, page xvii. |
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