Alexandra Kaloyanides
Biographic Data
| ID | 1140928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Kaloyanides |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaloyanides |
| SIGNATURE | KALOYANIDES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Getting into Good Methodological Trouble with Matthew King
IN THE FOREST OF THE BLIND: THE EURASIAN JOURNEY OF FAXIAN'S RECORD OF BUDDHIST KINGDOMSBy Matthew W. King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022 . Pp. 312. Paperback, $40.00; Hardcover, $160.00; E-Book, $39.99. Should scholars of Buddhism start getting into some good methodological trouble? Matthew King's In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms says, “Yes, please.” This rabble-rousing history …
The flower, then the sword
This article examines the highly ornamented Burmese manuscript known as the Kammavāca to understand what its luxurious materials and distinctive illustrations reveal about Buddhist practice and politics in Burma's last kingdom, the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885). This article shows that the illustrations on Kammavāca manuscripts transformed during the Konbaung dynasty to feature new sword-wielding guardians. This article argues that this militarisa…
Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves
This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated on charges of spying for the British but was eventually released to serve the king of Burma as a translator for the treaty that ended the war. Eight …
New Decade, New Directions
The Buddha’s Wizards
Anthropological work on Southeast Asia was crucial for developments in Religious Studies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melford Spiro’s 1970 Buddhism and Society drew on the example of Burmese Buddhism to define religion more broadly as a complex cultural and psychological system. Clifford Geertz’s 1973 feat of thick description, “Deep Play,” inspired scholars to read cultural forms as texts with its colorful analysis of Balinese co…
Show Us Your God
This essay examines the unusual evangelical work of Marilla Baker Ingalls, an American Baptist missionary to Burma from 1851-1902. By the time of her death in Burma at the age of 75, Ingalls was known as one of the most successful Baptist evangelists among Burmese Buddhists. To understand the extraordinary dynamic of Ingalls' expanding Christian community, this essay focuses on two prominent objects at the Baptist mission: A life-sized dog statue…
America's God and the World
Like many historians, I am working on a ghost story. This one begins in 1813, the beginning of the American Baptist mission to Burma. Like those told by John Modern and Mark Noll, this story is contoured by war-the American Civil War and a series of Anglo-Burmese Wars waged between 1824 and 1885. Its specters appear in missionary letters and diaries, newspapers reports, illustrated travelogues, and concurrently produced Burmese royal chronicles a…
Show Us Your God
This essay examines the unusual evangelical work of Marilla Baker Ingalls, an American Baptist missionary to Burma from 1851-1902. By the time of her death in Burma at the age of 75, Ingalls was known as one of the most successful Baptist evangelists among Burmese Buddhists. To understand the extraordinary dynamic of Ingalls' expanding Christian community, this essay focuses on two prominent objects at the Baptist mission: A life-sized dog statue…
Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves
This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated on charges of spying for the British but was eventually released to serve the king of Burma as a translator for the treaty that ended the war. Eight …
America's God and the World
Like many historians, I am working on a ghost story. This one begins in 1813, the beginning of the American Baptist mission to Burma. Like those told by John Modern and Mark Noll, this story is contoured by war-the American Civil War and a series of Anglo-Burmese Wars waged between 1824 and 1885. Its specters appear in missionary letters and diaries, newspapers reports, illustrated travelogues, and concurrently produced Burmese royal chronicles a…
Show Us Your God
This essay examines the unusual evangelical work of Marilla Baker Ingalls, an American Baptist missionary to Burma from 1851-1902. By the time of her death in Burma at the age of 75, Ingalls was known as one of the most successful Baptist evangelists among Burmese Buddhists. To understand the extraordinary dynamic of Ingalls' expanding Christian community, this essay focuses on two prominent objects at the Baptist mission: A life-sized dog statue…
The Buddha’s Wizards
Anthropological work on Southeast Asia was crucial for developments in Religious Studies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melford Spiro’s 1970 Buddhism and Society drew on the example of Burmese Buddhism to define religion more broadly as a complex cultural and psychological system. Clifford Geertz’s 1973 feat of thick description, “Deep Play,” inspired scholars to read cultural forms as texts with its colorful analysis of Balinese co…
Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves
This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated on charges of spying for the British but was eventually released to serve the king of Burma as a translator for the treaty that ended the war. Eight …
New Decade, New Directions
Getting into Good Methodological Trouble with Matthew King
IN THE FOREST OF THE BLIND: THE EURASIAN JOURNEY OF FAXIAN'S RECORD OF BUDDHIST KINGDOMSBy Matthew W. King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022 . Pp. 312. Paperback, $40.00; Hardcover, $160.00; E-Book, $39.99. Should scholars of Buddhism start getting into some good methodological trouble? Matthew King's In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms says, “Yes, please.” This rabble-rousing history …
The flower, then the sword
This article examines the highly ornamented Burmese manuscript known as the Kammavāca to understand what its luxurious materials and distinctive illustrations reveal about Buddhist practice and politics in Burma's last kingdom, the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885). This article shows that the illustrations on Kammavāca manuscripts transformed during the Konbaung dynasty to feature new sword-wielding guardians. This article argues that this militarisa…
History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Burmese (4 works)