Local and Translocal in the Study of Theravada Buddhism and Modernity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299539
AutoresErik Braun (0000-0001-7359-6018, University of Oklahoma, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen3
Número6
Páginas935-950
Fecha de publicación2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00180.x
OpenAlexW2146454384
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas40

This essay traces the development of scholarly thinking about the relationship between local and translocal forms of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia, particularly in regard to modernity. The first part of the article shows that scholars have moved well away from a view of the canonical Buddhist texts as the original and most authentic core of Theravada, emphasizing instead local settings as the sites for the production of Buddhist values, practices, and texts. The article then considers how this turn to the local is affecting understandings of Buddhist modernity in Southeast Asia. It suggests that recent work on modern Theravada Buddhism at the local level is pushing scholars toward a more atomized view of Buddhist modernities. In this view, local Buddhisms play a part at least as important as that of the global forces of modernization (usually seen as originating in the West

Aesthetics · Buddhism · Epistemology · Ethnology · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Sociology · Southeast asia · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy