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| Religious Resurgence, Authoritarianism, and “Ritual Governance”: Baci Rituals, Village Meetings, and the Developmental State in Rural Laos | ||
| 作者 | Singh, Sarinda |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.73 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2014.11.20 |
| 頁次 | 1059 - 1079 |
| 出版者 | Association for Asian Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.asian-studies.org/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Much productive scholarship across Asia has considered the links between religious resurgence and authoritarian governance. However, limitations persist in conceptualizations of state authority, which I examine in the literature on Southeast Asia. Noteworthy are the assumptions that central institutions are definitive of authoritarian states, and divides between study of the sacred and secular. I propose the notion of “ritual governance” to address these conceptual issues and illustrate this with an ethnographic case study from a major development project in Laos, the Nam Theun 2 hydropower scheme. I show how Lao government officials working with ethnic minority villagers used a baci ritual and village meeting to combine a persuasive sense of unity with coercive use of hierarchy. Significantly, the baci and other Buddhist rituals were suppressed by the early socialist state, but regained prominence with ideological shifts from socialism to modern developmentalism. This case study demonstrates the contemporary significance of state-sponsored ritual for development in Laos as well as the need for more nuanced conceptions of the state in discussions of religiosity and authoritarianism across Asia. |
| 目次 | BACI RITUALS IN POST-SOCIALIST LAOS 1063 DEVELOPING THE STATE IN THE RURAL PERIPHERY 1065 Social Divides between Officials and Villagers 1067 A Baci Ritual and a Village Meeting 1069 CONCLUSION 1074 Acknowledgments 1076 List of References 1077 |
| ISSN | 00219118 (P); 17520401 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0021911814001041 |
| 點閱次數 | 190 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.05.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.03.16 |
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