A Messianic Buddhist association in Upper Burma

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2807153
AutoresE Michael Mendelson, Edward Mendelson (autor de correspondencia)
Año1961
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas560-580
Fecha de publicación1961-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00092235
OpenAlexW2010678382
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas9

In the majority of cases, the religion of contemporary Burma is described as a compound of Theravāda Buddhism and the survivals of an indigenous 'Animism'. As an anthropological field-worker I have recently found in Burma certain beliefs and rituals which did not appear to fit exactly into either of these two categories. I present here, in two parts, a study of an association which I have chosen to call Messianic Buddhist. In the first part I describe the building in which it is housed and the cults I witnessed, together with beliefs concerning these cults elicited in the course of several conversations with members of the association. In the second part I draw on comparative materials in printed sources in order to justify my choice of terms and to attempt to explain the origin and nature of the association

Animism · Association (psychology · Biology · Buddhism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Indigenous · Order (exchange · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Ecology · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies