The Buddha’s Busted Finger: Craft, Touch, and Cosmology in Theravada Buddhism
This article is about the bodily connection between Theravada Buddhist craftspeople, monks, and laypeople to the objects they create and touch. Textual and contemporary accounts of Buddhist material production emphasize the importance of physical touch in the formal aspects, embodied efficacy, and s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-85 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thailand (Nord)
/ Theravada
/ Anthropology of religion
/ Material popular culture
/ Craft
/ Sacral building
/ Sacred object
/ Mudrās (Hinduism)
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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