Theravāda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity 1138192740, 9781138192744
Although recent scholarship has shown that the term 'Theravāda' in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth-
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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I Theravāda as a historical construct
1 Theravāda Buddhist civilizations and their modern formations
2 Periodizing Theravāda history: where to start?
3 The impact of the science–religion bifurcation on the landscape of modern Theravāda meditation
PART II
Local cultures and Buddhist vernaculars in colonial modernity
4 Buddhist religious culture and processes of modernization in
Sri Lanka
5 Buddhist communities of belonging in early-twentieth-century
Cambodia
6 What Theravāda does: thoughts on a term from the perspective
of the study of post-colonial Nepal
PART III
Theravāda Buddhist practices in the contemporary world
7 The rhetoric of authenticity: modernity and “true Buddhism”
in Sri Lanka
8 Portrait of the artist as a Buddhist man
9 “Conscripts” of Chinese modernity? Transformations of
Theravāda Buddhism in southwest China in the reform era
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I Theravāda as a historical construct
1 Theravāda Buddhist civilizations and their modern formations
2 Periodizing Theravāda history: where to start?
3 The impact of the science–religion bifurcation on the landscape of modern Theravāda meditation
PART II
Local cultures and Buddhist vernaculars in colonial modernity
4 Buddhist religious culture and processes of modernization in
Sri Lanka
5 Buddhist communities of belonging in early-twentieth-century
Cambodia
6 What Theravāda does: thoughts on a term from the perspective
of the study of post-colonial Nepal
PART III
Theravāda Buddhist practices in the contemporary world
7 The rhetoric of authenticity: modernity and “true Buddhism”
in Sri Lanka
8 Portrait of the artist as a Buddhist man
9 “Conscripts” of Chinese modernity? Transformations of
Theravāda Buddhism in southwest China in the reform era
Bibliography
Index
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- Juliane Schober
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