South and Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism guided initial work in the anthropology of Buddhism during the 1960s and 1970s, producing a variety of classic studies by anthropologists such as Gananath Obeyesekere (1963) , Melford Spiro (1970) , Stanley
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Rethinking Anthropological Models of Spirit Possession and Theravada Buddhism
Erick White
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 189–202 (14 total)
Uncertainty, Risk, and Merit-Making
Tea Economy and Religious Practices in a Southern Yunnan Bulang Community
Zhen Ma
's external uncertainties and risks, they do provide powerful shock absorbers for the Bulang, who practice Theravada Buddhism and worship spirit cults. The Bulang ideology of merit is complicated by the broader concept of blessing, which is especially
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 88–109 (22 total)
On Rewriting Buddhism
Or, How Not to Write a History
Ananda Abeysekara
medieval Pali texts as “imitations” of Sanskrit works owing to their “intellectual chauvinism” (8). Scholars, Gornall says, had neglected the Pali texts because they thought that “medieval Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka was conservative and culturally
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
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- 39–80 (42 total)
Belonging in a New Myanmar
Identity, Law, and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism
Juliane Schober
universe they embody. Showing how Theravada Buddhist literature, practices, and discourse have shaped local and regional histories has allowed scholars to go beyond received distinctions between text and practice in the study of Theravada Buddhism
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 158–172 (15 total)
Introduction
Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism
Nicolas Sihlé and Patrice Ladwig
by the dominance of scholarship on Theravāda (the Doctrine of the Elders) Buddhism, a range of forms found primarily in Sri Lanka and most of continental Southeast Asia. Theravāda Buddhism has often been perceived to embody a closer adherence to the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Introduction
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- 109–128 (20 total)
Afterword
So What Is the Anthropology of Buddhism About?
David N. Gellner
Enlightenment influence (ibid.: 150–151). Some have argued that Theravāda Buddhism provides a similar strong template for proto-nationalism, that is, national identity before the age of nationalism and colonialism. In other words, certain texts, such as the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 203–209 (7 total)
“Like a Dream, an Illusion, a Drop of Dew, a Flash of Lightning”
Buddhist (Un)reality, Thought Experiments, and the “Ecological Dharma Eye” in Lu Yang's Material World Knight Game Film
Livia Monnet
return to MWKGF' s “Buddhist teachings” later in this article; for now, I would like to call attention to the fact that the film's Buddhist discourse borrows freely both from the (Chinese translations of the) Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism and from the
Post-war Blood
Sacrifice, Anti-sacrifice, and the Rearticulations of Conflict in Sri Lanka
Neena Mahadev
thesis against the reformist and nationalistic conceits of vegetarianism in Sri Lankan Theravāda Buddhism, the Buddha himself had died from eating stale pork—a food item offered as dāna (alms) by a low-caste metal worker who was unaware of the provision
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 130–150 (21 total)
Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft
The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina
Patrice Ladwig
are encountering here is essentially a modern, colonial version of two interrelated processes that have been of prime importance throughout the history of Theravāda Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia. First, in Theravāda theories of statecraft
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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- 98–125 (28 total)
Book Reviews
Ayse Serap Avanoglu, Diana Riboli, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Annalisa Butticci, Iain R. Edgar, Matan Shapiro, Brooke Schedneck, Mark Sedgwick, Suzane de Alencar Vieira, Nell Haynes, Sara Farhan, Fabián Bravo Vega, Marie Meudec, Nuno Domingos, Heidi Härkönen, Sergio González Varela, and Nathanael Homewood
, much of Theravada Buddhism can seem remote and abstract. Recently, a number of ethnographic works have described Thai Buddhism in practice, as it is lived in communities of non-religious experts ( Cook 2010 ; Eberhardt 2006 ; Kitiarsa 2012 ; McDaniel
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Book Review
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- 210–239 (30 total)
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