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Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity (Hardcover)
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Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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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.
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