Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia

Emerging from a conference on Communities in Question: Religion and Authority in East and Southeast Asia, held in Hua Hin, Thailand, May 1989, this volume examines some of the tensions and conflicts between states and religious communities over the scope of religious views of the communities, the

• Charles F. Keyes, Editor

• Laurel Kendall, Editor

  Laurel Kendall is Curator in Charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and also teaches at Columbia University.

• Helen Hardacre, Editor