Modern Buddhist conjunctures in Myanmar [electronic resource] : cultural narratives, colonial legacies, and civil society / Juliane Schober.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 207 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780824860837
- 294.309591 22
- BQ420 .S36 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theravada cultural hegemony in precolonial Burma -- The emergence of the secular in modern Burma -- Educating the other : Buddhism and colonial knowledge -- Civil Buddhism in a colonial context -- The politics of the modern state as Buddhist practice -- Buddhist resistance against the state -- The limits of Buddhist moral authority in the secular state -- Potential futures.
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