Saving Buddhism : the impermanence of religion in colonial Burma /

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Saving Buddhism 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. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha's...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turner, Alicia Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Group identity > Burma > History.
Buddhism and politics > Burma > History > 20th century.
Buddhism and politics > Burma > History > 19th century.
Identité collective > Birmanie > Histoire.
Bouddhisme et politique > Birmanie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bouddhisme et politique > Birmanie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Buddhism and politics.
Group identity.
Politics and government.
Buddhismus
Sozialer Wandel
Burma > Politics and government > 1824-1948.
Birmanie > Politique et gouvernement > 1824-1948.
Burma.
Birma
Birma.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sasana decline and traditions of reform
  • Buddhist education
  • Morals, conduct, and community
  • The shoe and the shikho.

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