Religious Resurgence, Authoritarianism, and “Ritual Governance”: Baci Rituals, Village Meetings, and the Developmental State in Rural Laos

S. Singh

DOI:10.1017/S0021911814001041

Corpus ID: 161189953

Religious Resurgence, Authoritarianism, and “Ritual Governance”: Baci Rituals, Village Meetings, and the Developmental State in Rural Laos

@article{Singh2014ReligiousRA,
  title={Religious Resurgence, Authoritarianism, and “Ritual Governance”: Baci Rituals, Village Meetings, and the Developmental State in Rural Laos},
  author={S. Singh},
  journal={The Journal of Asian Studies},
  year={2014},
  volume={73},
  pages={1059-1079}
}

S. Singh

Published 2014

History

The Journal of Asian Studies

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… CONTINUE READING

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