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On Rewriting Buddhism: Or, How Not to Write a History |
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Abeysekara, Ananda (著)
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| Source |
Religion and Society: Advances in Research
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| Volume | v.13 |
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| Date | 2022.09 |
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| Pages | 39 - 80 |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Journals |
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https://www.berghahnjournals.com/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 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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| Note | Author Affiliation: Virginia Tech, USA. |
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| Keyword | Buddhist studies; creativity; medieval Buddhism; Romanticism; South Asian religion; Theravada Buddhism; Tibetan art; racism; white privilege |
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| Abstract | Through a detailed reading of a recent study of medieval Buddhism and politics in Sri Lanka in conjunction with a number of other works, this article explores the troubling legacy of translating the historical questions of subjectivity into the modern language of ‘agency’, ‘autonomy’, ‘innovation’, and ‘creativity’. This legacy cannot easily be separated from the politics of white privilege in post-colonial studies of Buddhism and South Asian religion. The problem with trying to expose creativity, so pervasive in the studies of South Asian religion, is not merely a matter of anachronistic conceptualization of divergent historical forms of religious practice and subjectivity. It is that the very possibility of translating subjectivity into easily digestible aestheticized modes of being (e.g., creativity) is predicated on an uninterrogated assumption about the self-evidence of such concepts independent of temporal forms of power encountered in forms of life. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 39
KEYWORDS 39
Authenticity 41
Autonomy 45
The Private 51
Aestheticization of Creativity 53
A Note on a Genealogy of Creativity 58
Final Remarks: Encountering Power 61
NOTES 67
REFERENCES 75 |
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| ISSN | 21509298 (P); 21509301 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.3167/arrs.2022.130104 |
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| Hits | 45 |
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| Created date | 2023.10.11 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.11 |
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