Religious Donations, Ritual Offerings, and Humanitarian Aid: Fields of Practice According to Forms of Giving in Burma

In this paper, the religious donation-meaning oriented interactions that occur between a lay donor and his or her monastic recipient or between laypeople and religious institutions as a whole-is first examined in the Burmese Buddhist context, in regard to the Maussian theory of the gift. The formal...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Comparative anthropology of Buddhist transactions: moving beyond the Maussian terminology of the "gift."
Main Author: Brac de La Perrière, Bénédicte 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Religion compass
Year: 2015, Volume: 9, Issue: 11, Pages: 386-403
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Myanmar / Buddhism / Generosity / Alms / Humanitarian aid / Merit (Ethics)
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
NCC Social ethics
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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