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Buddhist Sociology
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Author : Nandasēna Ratnapāla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Buddhist Sociology written by Nandasēna Ratnapāla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.
Buddhist Sociology
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Buddhist Sociology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Buddhism categories.
The Sociology Of Early Buddhism
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Author : Greg Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-27
The Sociology Of Early Buddhism written by Greg Bailey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-27 with Religion categories.
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of religion.
Buddhist Revival In India
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Author : Trevor Ling
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1980-06-19
Buddhist Revival In India written by Trevor Ling and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-06-19 with Social Science categories.
State Society And Religious Engineering
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Author : Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2009
State Society And Religious Engineering written by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
The book looks at how religion in Singapore is being subjected to the processes of modernisation and change. The Singapore State has consciously brought religion under its guidance. It has exercised strong bureaucratic and legal control over the functioning of all religions in Singapore. The Chinese community and the Buddhist Sangha have responded to this by restructuring their temple institutions into large multi-functional temple complexes. There has been quite a few books written on the role of the Singapore State but, so far, none has been written on the topic - the relationship between state, society and religion. It will help to fill the missing gap in the scholarly literature on this area. This is also a topic of great significance in many Asian, particularly Southeast Asian, countries and it will serve as an important book for future reference in this area of research and comparative studies.
Religious Motivation And The Origins Of Buddhism
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Author : Torkel Brekke
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Religious Motivation And The Origins Of Buddhism written by Torkel Brekke and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Buddhism categories.
Applying the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community, this work addresses the question of how world religions come into being.
Constituting Communities
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Author : John Clifford Holt
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Constituting Communities written by John Clifford Holt and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.
The Buddhist World Of Southeast Asia
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Author : Donald K. Swearer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Buddhist World Of Southeast Asia written by Donald K. Swearer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those interested in the Theravada homelands since the work's publication in 1995. Expanded and updated, the second edition offers this wide ranging account for readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Swearer shows Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia to be a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice embedded in the cultures, societies, and histories of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The work focuses on three distinct yet interrelated aspects of this milieu. The first is the popular tradition of life models personified in myths and legends, rites of passage, festival celebrations, and ritual occasions. The second deals with Buddhism and the state, illustrating how King Asoka serves as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, discussing the relationship of cosmology and kingship, and detailing the rise of charismatic Buddhist political leaders in the postcolonial period. The third is the modern transformation of Buddhism: the changing roles of monks and laity, modern reform movements, the role of women, and Buddhism in the West.
Buddhism And Society
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Author : Melford E. Spiro
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1982-05-27
Buddhism And Society written by Melford E. Spiro and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-05-27 with Religion categories.
The current Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is--among other reasons--both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of the East to an audience for whom the wisdom of the West has failed. This book is not an example of that genre. It is an attempt to interpret Buddhism in the light of some current theories about religion. As a work of scholarship, rather than a homiletic tract or an apologetic treatise, its aim is to understand Buddhism as one historical variant of the generic human attempt to find meaning and hope in a sacred order that transcends the mundane order of existence; its aime is not to encourage or discourage either a devotional or a soteriological interest in Buddhism.
Conflict Culture Change
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Author : Sulak Sivaraksa
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-04-15
Conflict Culture Change written by Sulak Sivaraksa and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Philosophy categories.
From Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa comes this look at Buddhism's innate ability to help us change our world. "Conflict, Culture, Change" explores the cultural and environmental impacts of consumerism, nonviolence, and compassion in the post-9/11 world. Special attention is given to such ideas as the integration of mindfulness and social activism, the use of Buddhist ethics to confront structural violence; globalization's threat to traditional identity; and the example of the recent transformation of Thailand.