Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
Although recent scholarship has shown that the term 'Theravada' in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million people around the world who practice that form of Buddhism. Buddhist practices such as meditation, amulets, and merit making rituals have always been inseparable from the social formations that give rise to them, their authorizing discourses and the hegemonic relations they create.This book is composed of chapters written by established scholars in Buddhist studies who represent diverse disciplinary approaches from art history, religious studies, his…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Collins, Steven (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-26853-6
- EAN: 9781317268536
- Produktnummer: 24194493
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'707 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Juliane Schober is Professor for Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Asian Research at Arizona State University, US.Steven Collins is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, US.
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