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Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks
Author McDaniel, Justin Thomas (著)
Date2017
Pages226
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
Publisher Url https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/
LocationHonolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
SeriesContemporary Buddhism
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteJustin Thomas McDaniel is professor of Buddhist studies and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
AbstractBuddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular" and “religious," “public" and “private," are in many ways false binaries. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
Table of contentsFront Matter i
Table of Contents vii
Series Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Monuments and Metabolism: Kenzo Tange and the Attempts to Bring New Architecture to Buddhism's Oldest Site 30
2 Ecumenical Parks and Cosmological Gardens: Braphai and Lek Wiriyaphan and Buddhist Spectacle Culture 82
3 Buddhist Museums and Curio Cabinets: Shi Fa Zhao and Ecumenism without an Agenda 131
Conclusions and Comparisons (pp. 162-176)
Conclusions and Comparisons 162
Notes 177
Bibliography 205
Index 215
Back Matter 225
ISBN9780824874407 (EISBN)
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