Saving Buddhism : the impermanence of religion in colonial Burma
Turner, Alicia Marie2017
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This work 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. Alicia Turner traces three discourses set in motion by the colonial encounter: the evolving understanding of ssana as an orienting framework for change, the adaptive modes of identity made possible in the moral community, and the definition of religion as a site of conflict and negotiation of autonomy.
Main title:
Saving Buddhism : the impermanence of religion in colonial Burma / Alicia Turner.
Author:
Turner, Alicia Marie, author
Imprint:
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2017.
Collation:
240 pages ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780824872861 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1078515
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