Therav?da Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Theravāda as a historical construct -- 1 Theravāda Buddhist civilizations and their modern formations -- 2 Periodizing Theravāda history: where to start? -- 3 The impact of the science-re...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Florence
Taylor and Francis
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Schober, Juliane: Therav?da Buddhist Encounters with Modernity. - Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781138192744 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Theravāda as a historical construct -- 1 Theravāda Buddhist civilizations and their modern formations -- 2 Periodizing Theravāda history: where to start? -- 3 The impact of the science-religion bifurcation on the landscape of modern Theravāda meditation -- PART II Local cultures and Buddhist vernaculars in colonial modernity -- 4 Buddhist religious culture and processes of modernization in Sri Lanka -- 5 Buddhist communities of belonging in early-twentieth-century Cambodia -- 6 What Theravāda does: thoughts on a term from the perspective of the study of post-colonial Nepal -- PART III Theravāda Buddhist practices in the contemporary world -- 7 The rhetoric of authenticity: modernity and "true Buddhism" in Sri Lanka -- 8 Portrait of the artist as a Buddhist man -- 9 "Conscripts" of Chinese modernity? Transformations of Theravāda Buddhism in southwest China in the reform era -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1317268539 |