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Contested religious identities: Debating monkhood and Buddhism in Sri Lanka |
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Abeysekara, Ananda (著)
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| Source |
Dissertation Abstracts International
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| Volume | v.60 n.12 Section A |
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| Date | 1999 |
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| Publisher | ProQuest LLC |
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https://www.proquest.com/
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| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Northwestern University |
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| Advisor | Bond, George |
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| Publication year | 1999 |
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| Note | 411p |
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| Keyword | Religious Identities; Debating; Monkhood; Sri Lanka |
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| Abstract | This study is a critical exploration of Buddhist debates about what it means to be a “Buddhist” monk within the Sri Lankan political universe of the recent past, largely the last two decades. The study does not provide a holistic, linear narrative of that history but rather investigates specific political conditions within that past that made possible the production of some landmark debates about being a “Buddhist” monk. Cast within a more general theoretical framework, this work examines the politically constituted and shifting relations between religious knowledge and practice, that is to say, ways in which knowledge about various kinds of practices can and cannot count as “religious,” are authorized, debated, contested etc., in and by specific political conditions. The study attempts to develop a critical reflection on the discursive production of categories such as “Buddhism,” “monastic identity,” “politics,” “violence,” “terror(ism),” and so on in specific debates and contests made possible by specific socio-political contexts. It argues that the questions, parameters, and boundaries about what it means to be a Buddhist and a Buddhist monk in particular shift when those debates and their conditions shift. Locating these shifting meanings of being Buddhist is, however, not simply an attempt at explaining how “Buddhism” or “Buddhist identity” has changed or is changing. Rather, such concepts and the possibilities of their being invested with varying meanings must be located within the bounds of discursive conditions. |
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| ISBN | 9780599275461 |
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| Created date | 2008.04.18 |
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| Modified date | 2022.03.29 |
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