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Saving Buddhism (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory)
Alicia Turner
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Description for Saving Buddhism (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory)
Hardcover. This book sets aside the usual scholarly categories for understanding religion and colonialism: lenses of nationalism, modernity and colonial assimilation, to immerse itself in the world of Burmese Buddhist lay associations and the responses to British colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha’s teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha’s sāsana was deteriorating. This fear of decline drove waves of activity and organizing to prevent the loss of the Buddha’s teachings. Burmese set out to save Buddhism, but achieved much more: they took advantage of ... Read more
Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha’s teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha’s sāsana was deteriorating. This fear of decline drove waves of activity and organizing to prevent the loss of the Buddha’s teachings. Burmese set out to save Buddhism, but achieved much more: they took advantage of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839376
SKU
V9780824839376
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About Alicia Turner
Alicia Turner is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University, Canada.
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