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
Main Author: Turner, Alicia Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialer Wandel
Buddhismus
Politics and government.
Group identity.
Buddhism and politics.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Bouddhisme et politique > Birmanie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Bouddhisme et politique > Birmanie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Identite collective > Birmanie > Histoire.
Buddhism and politics > Burma > History > 19th century.
Buddhism and politics > Burma > History > 20th century.
Group identity > Burma > History.
Birma.
Birma
Burma.
Birmanie > Politique et gouvernement > 1824-1948.
Burma > Politics and government > 1824-1948.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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