Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma by Alicia Turner

Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma

Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory

Alicia Turner

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics religion informative reflective medium-paced
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or ...

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