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Modern Buddhist conjunctures in Myanmar : cultural narratives, colonial legacies, and civil society /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schober, Juliane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Theravāda Buddhism > Political aspects > Burma.
Buddhism and state > Burma > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.