have begun to make explicit use of mindfulness terminology in their promotion of what they take to be traditional Chabad Hasidic teachings. Our approach is indebted to the extensive critical literature on ‘Buddhist modernism’ ( Garfield 2015
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Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism
Toward a Contemplative Ethnography
Don Seeman and Michael Karlin
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Post-war Blood
Sacrifice, Anti-sacrifice, and the Rearticulations of Conflict in Sri Lanka
Neena Mahadev
the humans who do engage in sacrifice to pacify their gods. Modernist Buddhist interventions, including those directed against sacrifice, impinge upon religiously plural spaces. By Buddhist modernism, I refer to efforts by Buddhist practitioners to
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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Afterword
So What Is the Anthropology of Buddhism About?
David N. Gellner
Mahāvamsa, were usable as a kind of charter for religiously infused nationalist feeling even before the modern era ( Kemper 1991 ). Thus, Buddhist nationalism is not only a consequence of modernism, although the story of Buddhist modernism is undoubtedly
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Affective Futures and Relative Eschatology in American Tibetan Buddhism
Amy Binning
://www.socialsciencespace.com/2013/02/podcastdoreen-massey-on-space/ . McMahan , David L. 2008 . The Making of Buddhist Modernism . New York : Oxford University Press . McMahan , David . 2017 . “ Buddhism, Meditation, and Global Secularisms .” Journal of Global
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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A Contemplative Approach in the Framework of Environmental Education
The Potential of Mindfulness
Irida Tsevreni
Adams, MA : Storey Publishing . McMahan , David L. 2008 . The Making of Buddhist Modernism . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Merleau-Ponty , Maurice . 1968 . The Visible and the Invisible . Evanston : Northwestern University Press
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Belonging in a New Myanmar
Identity, Law, and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism
Juliane Schober
renewed discourse about the kind of involvement in society that monks should have, that is, as socially engaged agents of Buddhist modernism, as teachers, or as disciplined sources of merit. Yet the debate also includes allegations about imposters, those
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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On Rewriting Buddhism
Or, How Not to Write a History
Ananda Abeysekara
societies” was a “creative, heterogeneous adaptation” of Western modernity ( McMahan 2008: 14 ). This is precisely the problematic claim advanced by David McMahan (2008) in his The Making of Buddhist Modernism, which has all too often been uncritically
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Introduction
Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism
Nicolas Sihlé and Patrice Ladwig
.7312/mcda15376 McMahan , David L . 2008 . The Making of Buddhist Modernism . New York : Oxford University Press . Messick , Brinkley M . 1993 . “ Written Culture .” Comparative Study of Social Transformation (CSST) Working Paper No. 96 . Michaud
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