In Bai society,women are the main actors to worship deities for protection,prosperity,and fertility of their villages and families.Taking Lianchi Hui,a village-based lay association comprised of middle-aged and elderly Bai women,as an example,this paper explores Bai women's agency and affective connections rooted in their bodily and sound movements in Lianchi Hui's religious practices.By exploring Lianchi Hui members' body-sound habitus,particularly their worship and chanting experience,this paper argues that Bai women exercise their “nonoppositional agency”through their collective body-sound,creating a sustained sounding environment that gives rise to the communication with divinities and gods,on the one hand,and a female space in which they build connections with each other and carry on their social obligations and refine their virtues,even though this agency may stay within or even reproduce the logic of patriarchal structures.