Science And Development In Thai And South Asian Buddhism

Author : David L Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429626845

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Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism by David L Gosling Pdf

Becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand has for a long time provided the opportunity for access to a good education and to social advancement, both to bright, poor rural youths and to members of the urban elite whose youth often become monks for a few months as a rite of passage into adulthood. Moreover, although women are not allowed to become fully fledged monks, recent developments have encouraged a special status akin to nuns for many devout Thai Buddhist women. All this has resulted in large numbers of well-educated, well-motivated Buddhist religious people, keen both to engage in religious contemplation and also determined to contribute to this-worldly social, economic, educational and medical development goals. This book, by a leading authority on the subject, considers the role of Thai Buddhist religious people in development within Thailand. It discusses how Thai Buddhism has evolved philosophically and in its organisation to allow this, examines various examples of Buddhist people's engagement in development projects, and assesses how the situation is likely to unfold going forward. In addition, the book considers the relationship between science and religion in Thai Buddhism and also some aspects of the parallel situation in Sri Lanka.

Author : J. L. Taylor
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9813016493

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Forest Monks and the Nation-state by J. L. Taylor Pdf

This book is a detailed study on the ascetic forest monk tradition in the Lao-speaking provinces of northeastern Thailand in the wake of the early twentieth century politico-religious reforms. The narrative alternates between the periphery and the capital, dealing with historic transformations and persistencies in the social field of wandering forest monks as well as the contemporary impact of this monastic tradition in the wider social and political milieu. The writer uses original ethnographic materials and provides a rare insight into the formation of monastic lineages and the local politico-religious histories of present-day northeastern Thailand.

Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351954433

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Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand by James Taylor Pdf

This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai ’urbanity’; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possibilities in understanding the specificities of everyday urban life as this relates to perceptions, conceptions and lived experiences of religiosity. Changes in the centre are also reverberating in the remaining forests and the monastic tradition of forest-dwelling which has sourced most of the nation’s modern saints. The text is based on ethnography taking into account the rich variety of everyday practices in a mélange of the religious. In Thailand, Buddhism is so intimately interconnected with national identity and social, economic and ethno-political concerns as to be inseparable. Taylor argues here that in recent years there has been a marked reformulation of important conventional cosmologies through new and challenging Buddhist ideas and practices. These influences and changes are as much located outside as inside the Buddhist temples/monasteries.

Author : Paul Rutledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015024727128

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Central Thai Buddhism and Modernization by Paul Rutledge Pdf

Author : Jonathan Rigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134519507

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Southeast Asia by Jonathan Rigg Pdf

The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth? This book charts the development of Southeast Asia, examining the economies of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma alongside the established Asian market economies. Drawing on case studies from across the region, the author assesses poverty and ways in which the poor are identified and viewed. Process and change in the rural and urban 'worlds' are examined in detail, focusing on the strengthening rural-urban interaction as 'farmers' make a living in the urban-industrial sector and factories relocate into agricultural areas. Giving prominence to indigenous notions of development, based on Buddhism, Islam and the so-called 'Asian Way', the author critically assesses the conceptual foundations of development, ideas of post-developmentalism, and the 'miracle' thesis. In the light of the experience of one of the most vibrant regions in the world, the book places emphasis on the process of modernization within wider debates of development and challenges the notion that development has been a mirage for many and a tragedy for some.

Author : Yoneo Ishii
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009187173

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Sangha, State, and Society by Yoneo Ishii Pdf

Author : Somboon Suksamran
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971902377

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Political Patronage and Control Over the Sangha by Somboon Suksamran Pdf

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 : Claudia Dolezal,Alexander Trupp,Huong T. Bui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429559228

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Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia by Claudia Dolezal,Alexander Trupp,Huong T. Bui Pdf

This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of case studies from a range of different countries in the region, this book is interdisciplinary in nature, thereby presenting a comprehensive overview of tourism’s current and future role in development. Divided into four parts, it discusses the nexus of tourism and development at both the regional and national levels, with a focus on theoretical and methodological foundations, protected areas, local communities, and broader issues of governance. Contributors from within and outside of Southeast Asia raise awareness of the local challenges, including issues of ownership or unequal power relations, and celebrate best-practice examples where tourism can be regarded as making a positive difference to residents’ life. The first edited volume to examine comprehensive analysis of tourism in Southeast Asia as both an economic and social phenomenon through the lens of development, this book will be useful to students and scholars of tourism, development, Southeast Asian culture and society and Asian Studies more generally.

Author : J. A.Niels Mulder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Buddha and buddhism
ISBN : OCLC:994005286

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Monks, Merit and Motivation by J. A.Niels Mulder Pdf

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045592

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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.

Author : Koki Seki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000090918

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Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines by Koki Seki Pdf

The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements. How do various groups in the Global South respond to and manage chronic states of insecurity and precarity concomitant with contemporary globalization processes? While drawing on diverse ethnographic viewpoints in the Philippines, the authors analyze the impact of these processes through the conceptual framework of "emergent sociality," a purported connectedness among individuals fostered through interactions, copresence, and conviviality within a community over a long duration. In so doing, the case studies in this volume suggest, illuminate, and debate insecurities that may be commonly shared among populations in the Philippines and throughout the Global South. This anthology will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, globalization and Philippines society.

Author : Somboon Suksamran
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000041671

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Political Buddhism in Southeast Asia by Somboon Suksamran Pdf

Author : Sulak Sivaraksa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015038349778

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Alternative Development by Sulak Sivaraksa Pdf

Author : Vu Le Thao Chi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000045017

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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam by Vu Le Thao Chi Pdf

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities nor convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu’s research pays particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment. A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and society, the book will also be of interest to sociologists and economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic and political change on rural lifestyles.

Author : Jamie D. Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000178050

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ASEAN and Power in International Relations by Jamie D. Stacey Pdf

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved, looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The book adds to important contemporary debates within constructivist theory, shedding light on the need for ‘critical’ constructivism that emphasises language and contestation and what that may entail. On an empirical level, it challenges the idea of an 'EU-centrism,' demonstrating how ASEAN is the major driving force behind its human rights and community aspirations, as well as within the ASEAN-EU relationship. Furthermore, this book engages with the introspection surrounding constructivism by addressing the trouble with 'norms,' and instead unpacking the relationship between ASEAN and the EU to show language power in play. In particular, the book looks at how language, or rather coercive language, helps us ‘see’ contestation in action, something that researchers sympathetic towards the idea of ASEAN’s ‘resistance’ have been unable to show through a focus on norms. Tracing the evolution of the ASEAN community and human rights aspirations in a new light, showing how exactly the EU remains an inspiration, but not a model, and more interestingly how ASEAN demonstrates power in the relationship, the book will be of interest to academics working on Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations Theory and human rights.