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Buddhism claims no god, yet spiritual realities abound in popular practice. What are these realities? What do they mean to the practitioners? How can understand

Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeli

This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.