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Author : E. Michael Mendelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015005182921
Author : Khammai Dhammasami
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350054257
Drawing on primary sources in Pali, Burmese and Thai, practising monk Venerable Khammai Dhammasami guides the reader through the complex history of monastic education in two neighbouring countries with very different Buddhist societies: Burma and Thailand. This book provides a clear account of the ways in which royal leaders and monastic institutions worked to develop monastic education in the face of changing political and economic conditions, including colonialism and the political instability of the 19th and 20th centuries. It studies influences from both British colonists and Siamese/Thai reformers, and engages with primary material, including documents from Burmese monasteries, royal orders, royal chronicles, and official government records. As the first book to examine monastic education in Burma and Thailand, this is a welcome contribution to the social, monastic and religious history of Southeast Asia, and the growing field of Burmese Buddhist Studies.
Author : Yoneo Ishii
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001066236
Author : Juliane Schober
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824860837
For centuries, Burmese have looked to the authority of their religious tradition, Theravada Buddhism, to negotiate social and political hierarchies. Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar examines those moments in the modern history of this Southeast Asian country when religion, culture, and politics converge to chart new directions. Arguing against Max Weber’s characterization of Buddhism as other-worldly and divorced from politics, this study shows that Buddhist practice necessitates public validation within an economy of merit in which moral action earns future rewards. The intervention of colonial modernity in traditional Burmese Buddhist worldviews has created conjunctures at which public concerns critical to the nation’s future are reinterpreted in light of a Buddhist paradigm of power. Author Juliane Schober begins by focusing on the public role of Buddhist practice and the ways in which precolonial Buddhist hegemonies were negotiated. Her discussion then traces the emergence of modern Buddhist communities through the colonial experience: the disruption of traditional paradigms of hegemony and governance, the introduction of new and secular venues to power, modern concerns like nationalism, education, the public place of religion, the power of the state, and Buddhist resistance to the center. The continuing discourse and cultural negotiation of these themes draw Buddhist communities into political arenas, either to legitimate political power or to resist it on moral grounds. The book concludes with an examination of the way in which Buddhist resistance in 2007, known in the West as the Saffron Revolution, was subjugated by military secularism and the transnational pressures of a global economy. A skillfully crafted work of scholarship, Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar will be welcomed by students of Theravada Buddhism and Burma/Myanmar, readers of anthropology, history of religions, politics, and colonial studies of modern Southeast Asia, and scholars of religious and political practice in modern national contexts.
Author : Somboon Suksamran
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971902377
This paper deals with the structural-functional relationships between the Sangha (the community of Buddhist monks) and the state, moving from early times to the present. It attempts to show that these relationships have been structured in such a way that the Sangha tendes to be subjugated by or subordinated to the state.
Author : Thomas Nathan Patton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231547376
Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. Yet belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era. Thomas Nathan Patton explains the world of wizards, spells, and supernatural powers in terms of both the broader social, political, and religious context and the intimate roles that wizards play in people’s everyday lives. He draws on affect theory, material and visual culture, long-term participant observation, and the testimonies of the devout to show how devotees perceive the protective power of wizard-saints. Patton considers beliefs and practices associated with wizards to be forms of defending Buddhist traditions from colonial and state power and culturally sanctioned responses to restrictive gender roles. The book also offers a new lens on the political struggles and social transformations that have taken place in Myanmar in recent years. Featuring close attention to the voices of individual wizard devotees and the wizards themselves, The Buddha’s Wizards provides a striking new look at a little-known aspect of Buddhist belief that helps expand our ways of thinking about the daily experience of lived religious practices.
Author : Jaclyn L. Neo,Arif A. Jamal,Daniel P. S. Goh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108416177
Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia, including how religion responds to such regulations. It looks at underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and the challenges emerging from such regulation.
Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815791690
This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives. It analyzes the Asian decision to "constructively engage" Burma, especially in economic affairs, versus the position of the United States and many other Western countries to treat Burma as a pariah. Other chapters focus on the drug trade (Burma produces more than 60 percent of the world's heroin), the growing role of China as Burma's military and economic "big brother," political culture and democratic traditions, the unsustainable nature of current economic growth, shortfalls in education and health systems, and Burma's potential for foreign investment.
Author : Thomas Banchoff,Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199841039
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of globalization, these questions have a salient religious dimension. Religion intersects with global human rights agendas in multiple ways, including: whether ''universal'' human rights are in fact an imposition of Christian understandings; whether democracy, the ''rule of the people,'' is compatible with God's law; and whether international efforts to enforce human rights including religious freedom amount to an illicit imperialism. This book brings together leading specialists across disciplines for the first major survey of the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. The authors take a bottom-up approach and focus particularly on hot-button issues like human rights in Islam, Falun Gong in China, and religion in the former Soviet Union. Each essay examines the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers.
Author : John P Ferguson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004658370
Author : Ingrid Jordt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896804579
Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country. Drawing on more than ten years of extensive fieldwork in Burma, Ingrid Jordt explains how vipassanā meditation has brought about a change of worldview for millions of individuals, enabling them to think and act independently of the totalitarian regime. She addresses human rights as well as the relationship between politics and religion in a country in which neither the government nor the people clearly separates the two. Jordt explains how the movement has been successful in its challenge to the Burmese military dictatorship where democratically inspired resistance movements have failed. Jordt’s unsurpassed access to the centers of political and religious power in Burma becomes the reader’s opportunity to witness the political workings of one of the world’s most secretive and tyrannically ruled countries. Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement is a valuable contribution to Buddhist studies as well as anthropology, religious studies, and political science.
Author : Bardwell L. Smith
Publisher : American Teilhard Association
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000066048
Author : Robert H. Taylor
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Burma
ISBN : UCAL:B4539912
Author : Robert H. Taylor
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9971694662
Author : Carlo Caldarola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110823530
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems – both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.