Modern Buddhist conjunctures in Myanmar
Subtitle: cultural narratives, colonial legacies, and civil society
By: Juliane Schober
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824833824
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theravada cultural hegemony in precolonial Burma; title: The emergence of the secular in modern Burma; title: Educating the other : Buddhism and colonial knowledge; title: Civil Buddhism in a colonial context; title: The politics of the modern state as Buddhist practice; title: Buddhist resistance against the state; title: The limits of Buddhist moral authority in the secular state; title: Potential futures.