Theravāda Buddhist encounters with modernity

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Theravāda Buddhist encounters with modernity

edited by Juliane Schober and Steven Collins

(Routledge critical studies in Buddhism)

Routledge, 2018

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-166) and index

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内容説明

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, history and ethnography. It explores the historical forces, both external to and within the tradition of Theravada Buddhism and discusses how modern forms of Buddhist practice have emerged in South and Southeast Asia, in case studies from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia and Southwest China. Specific studies contextualize general trends and draw on practices, institutions, and communities that have been identified with this civilizational tradition throughout its extensive history and across a highly diverse cultural geography. This book foreground diverse responses among Theravadins to the encroaching challenges of modern life ways, communications, and political organizations, and will be of interest to scholars of Asian Religion, Buddhism and South and Southeast Asian Studies.

目次

Part I: Theravada as a Historical Construct 1. Theravada Buddhist Civilizations and their Modern Formations, Juliane Schober and Steven Collins 2. Periodizing Theravada: Where to start?, Steven Collins 3. The Impact of the Science-Religion Bifurcation on the Landscape of Modern Theravada Meditation, Kate Crosby Part II: Local Cultures and Buddhist Vernaculars in Colonial Modernity 4. Buddhist Religious Culture and Processes of Modernization in Sri Lanka, John Clifford Holt 5. Buddhist Communities of Belonging in Early Twentieth Century Cambodia, Anne Hansen 6. What Theravada Does: Thoughts on a Term from the Perspective of the Study of Post-Colonial Nepal, Christoph Emmrich Part III: Theravada Buddhist Practices in the Contemporary World 7. The Rhetoric of Authenticity: Modernity and 'True Buddhism' in Sri Lanka, Stephen C. Berkwitz 8. Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man, Ashley Thompson 9. 'Conscripts' of Chinese Modernity? Transformations of Theravada Buddhism in Southwest China in the Reform Era, Thomas Borchert

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