The genesis and demarcation of the religious field: monasteries, state schools, and the secular sphere in Lao Buddhism (1893-1975)
Until the 1950s Lao monks and monasteries still had a crucial role in providing education for large parts of the population. With an increasing encroachment of the state, however, educational politics shifted towards the establishment of a state school system and marginalized the monks’ role in publ...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Institution
2011
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Sojourn
Jahr: 2011, Band: 26, Heft: 2, Seiten: 196-223 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Mönch
B Säkularisierung B Bildung B Bildungseinrichtung B Schule B Erziehung B Staat B Geschichte B Nonne B Laos Geschichte Nonnen/Mönche Buddhismus Schule Bildung/Erziehung Säkularisierung Bildungseinrichtung/Ausbildungseinrichtung Innere Organisation von Institutionen/Organisationen Verhältnis Religionsgemeinschaft - Staat Religiöse Erziehung B Buddhismus B Laos B Religionsgemeinschaft B Einrichtung B Organisationsstruktur B Religiöse Erziehung |
| Zusammenfassung: | Until the 1950s Lao monks and monasteries still had a crucial role in providing education for large parts of the population. With an increasing encroachment of the state, however, educational politics shifted towards the establishment of a state school system and marginalized the monks’ role in public education. The training in monasteries became increasingly linked to a separate, religious field. This article explores the implications and dynamics of these processes with regard to Bourdieu’s theory of differentiation of the religious field and contemporary discussions of secularization. By employing a historical perspective spanning from the colonial period to 1975, the article explores the emergence and the shifting boundaries of the religious field. Largely focusing on institutional structures, I argue that through functional differentiation we witness a demarcation of a religious field and a simultaneous emergence of a secular sphere. (Sojourn/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 0217-9520 |
| Enthält: | In: Sojourn
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