Pali Scholarship "in Its Truest Sense" in Burma
The Multiple Trajectories in Colonial Deployments of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3639281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Turner (0000-0003-0048-6250, Turner Consulting Group (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-138 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911817001292 |
| OpenAlex | W2783670771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to change. More than this, religion seems to have offered a multivalent medium for a variety of innovations. Pali examinations were central to Buddhist reform in colonial Burma at the turn of the twentieth century but also fomented conflicts between the colonial state and monastic factions over the purpose of language study. However, beyond such conflicts, Pali examinations proved fertile grounds for Buddhist laypeople to experiment with multiple interpretations of what Buddhist modernity might mean in Burma
Ancient history · Archaeology · Buddhism · Colonialism · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |