Schober / Collins Theravada Buddhist Encounters with Modernity

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-26852-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

Recent scholarship has shown that the term ‘Theravada’ in the familiar modern sense is a 19-20th c. construct that emerged in response to modern historical conjunctures in South and Southeast Asia. This book explores these historical forces, both external to and within the tradition and analyses in what ways, and in relation to which timescale(s), modern forms of Buddhist practice have emerged in South and Southeast Asia. Established scholars in Buddhist Studies examine how Theravada civilizations been constructed in the Buddhist encounter with modernity. Chapters in the book address the articulation of recurrent themes comparatively from the vantage point of history, textual studies, art history and ethnography, focusing on case studies from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia and Southwest China. Specific case 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. The final section of the book explores social formations and institutions that developed in responses to these sweeping historical changes and represent modern Theravada Buddhist practices and writings.

Foregrounding diverse responses among Theravadins to the encroaching challenges of modern life ways, communications, and political organizations, this book will be of interest to scholars of Asian Religion, Buddhism and South and Southeast Asian Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schober, Juliane

Collins, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Theravada Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Juliane Schober and Steven Collins I. Theravada as a Historical Construct 2. Theravada Buddhism, Historiography and Modernization, Steven Collins 3. What’s in a name? Postmodern criticisms of Buddhists under colonialism, Patrick Pranke 4. Theravada Buddhism and Science, Kate Crosby II. Local Cultures and Buddhist Vernaculars in Colonial Modernity 5. Buddhist Religious Culture and Processes of Modernization in Sri Lanka, John Clifford Holt 6. Buddhist Communities of Belonging in Early Twentieth Century Cambodia, Anne Hansen 7. What Theravada Does: Thoughts on a Term from the Perspective of the Study of Post-Colonial Nepal, Christoph Emmrich III. Theravada Buddhist Practices in the Contemporary World 8. The Rhetoric of Authenticity: Modernity and ‘True Buddhism’ in Sri Lanka, Stephen C. Berkwitz 9. Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man, Ashley Thompson 10. ‘Conscripts’ of Chinese Modernity? Transformations of Theravada Buddhism in Southwest China in the Reform Era, Thomas Borchert

Über Autor(innen)

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.