Modern Buddhist conjunctures in Myanmar : cultural narratives, colonial legacies, and civil society

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Modern Buddhist conjunctures in Myanmar : cultural narratives, colonial legacies, and civil society

Juliane Schober

University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2011

  • : hard

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index

Contents of Works

  • Theravada cultural hegemony in precolonial Burma
  • The emergence of the secular in modern Burma
  • Educating the other : Buddhism and colonial knowledge
  • Civil Buddhism in a colonial context
  • The politics of the modern state as Buddhist practice
  • Buddhist resistance against the state
  • The limits of Buddhist moral authority in the secular state
  • Potential futures

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