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Author : Yoneo Ishii
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sangha, State, and Society written by Yoneo Ishii and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Somboon Suksamran
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
ISBN 13 : 9971902370
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Political Patronage and Control Over the Sangha written by Somboon Suksamran and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1981 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper deals with the structural-functional relationships between the Sangha (the community of Buddhist monks) and the state, moving from early times to the present. It attempts to show that these relationships have been structured in such a way that the Sangha tendes to be subjugated by or subordinated to the state.
Author : Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812308652
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book State, Society, and Religious Engineering written by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sunanda Putuwar
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780819178428
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (784 download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Sangha written by Sunanda Putuwar and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddhist Sangha begins as an analysis of the ethical aspects of early Pali (Theravada) Buddhism and becomes a proposal that the Buddhist Sangha is a workable paradigm for an ideal society. The Sangha's democratic nature is foregrounded, as well as its emphasis on moral administration and understanding, and its call for harmonious interaction between kings and the general public. In addition, the primary governmental aspects of the Sangha, conflict and its resolution, are discussed in light of Buddhist ethical principles. This book is a comprehensive, philosophical and critical examination of Buddhist ethics and related political principles. Contents: Historical Background; Buddhist Moral Philosophy; The Sangha as an Ideal Society; Secretariat or Supreme Court of the Sangha; The Democratic Nature of the Sangha.
Author : Arnaud Dubus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786167571324
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Politics in Thailand written by Arnaud Dubus and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bikshu Sangharakshita; Varaprabha
Publisher : WND Books
ISBN 13 : 9781911407775
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book What Is the Sangha? written by Bikshu Sangharakshita; Varaprabha and published by WND Books. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The usual image of the Buddha is of a man seated alone, deep in meditation. So it can be a surprise to find that Buddhism gives great importance to the Sangha, the spiritual community. Some may feel that their guru or teacher is all that they need. To others, the idea of sharing their inner and outer lives, triumphs and disappointments, with others can seem a challenge or even a threat. But the spiritual community is not about unthinking conformity or belonging to a comfortable group. Rather, it is the free association of developing individuals choosing to help each other along the path. To explore the nature of the spiritual community is also to examine what makes us true individuals. This exploration ranges from our relationships with spiritual teachers through our friends, family and fellow workers to the benefits the spiritual community can offer to the wider world.
Author : Constance M. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book State and Society in the Reign of Mongkut, 1851-1868 written by Constance M. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melford E. Spiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Society written by Melford E. Spiro and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garima Kaushik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317329392
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia written by Garima Kaushik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.
Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135909008
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945 written by James A. Warren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate gambling through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws. By the mid-twentieth century, most forms of gambling had been made illegal, a situation that persists until today. This historical study, based on a wide variety of Thai- and English-language archival sources including government reports, legal cases and newspapers, places the criminalization of gambling in Thailand in the broader context of the country’s socio-economic transformation and the modernization of the Thai state. Particular attention is paid to how state institutions, such as the police and judiciary, and different sections of Thai society shaped and subverted the law to advance their own interests. Finally, the book compares the Thai government’s policies on gambling with those on opium use and prostitution, placing the latter in the context of an international clampdown on vice in the early twentieth century.
Author : Ananda Abeysekara
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034671
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Colors of the Robe written by Ananda Abeysekara and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poised to spark debate among scholars of religious studies and other disciplines, Colors of the Robe sheds new light on the Sri Lankan Buddhist universe of ethics and politics and, more important, suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, identity, culture, politics, and violence. In a volume that surpasses other studies in tracking, identifying, and locating Sri Lankan Buddhism in its sectarian, ethnic, cultural, social, and political constructions, Ananda Abeysekara lays down a challenge to postcolonial and postmodern theory. He argues that although criticisms have undermined the orientalist constructions of culture, they cannot help us understand, let alone theorize, the emergence of contemporary authoritative discourses that define distinctions involving religion and violence, identity and difference. Supplanting that aim, Abeysekara illuminates the shifting configurations that characterize the relations connected with postcolonial religious identity and culture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Michael K. Jerryson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mongolian Buddhism written by Michael K. Jerryson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mongolian Buddhism is the first book to explore the development of Mongolia's state religion, from its formation in the thirteenth century around the time of Chinggis Qaan (Genghis Khan) until its demise in the twentieth century under the Soviet Union. Until its downfall, Mongolian Buddhism had served as a scientific, political, and medical resource for the Mongolian people. During the 1930s, Mongolian Buddhist monasticism, the caretaker of these resources, was methodically and systematically demolished. Lamas were forced to apostatize, and were either enslaved or executed. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Mongolian Buddhism has reemerged in a country that has yet to fully confront its bloody past. Through historical analysis of Tibetan, Chinese, and Russian accounts of history, Michael Jerryson offers a much-needed religio-political perspective on the ebb and flow of Buddhism and the Sangha in Mongolia.
Author : Neil A. Englehart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719114
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government written by Neil A. Englehart and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior to King Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms in the nineteenth century. Englehart offers evidence to show that traditional Siamese government functioned more effectively and rationally than most scholars have acknowledged.
Author : Monica Lindberg Falk
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940195
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Making Fields of Merit written by Monica Lindberg Falk and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthropological study addresses religion and gender relations through the lens of the lives, actions and role in Thai society of an order of Buddhist nuns (mae chii). It presents a unique ethnography of these Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society. The study also deals with the nuns' agency in creating religious space and authority for women. In addition, it raises questions about how the position of Thai Buddhist nuns outside the Buddhist sanhga affects their religious legitimacy and describes recent moves to restore a Theravada order of female monks." -- BACK COVER.
Author : Michael Jerryson
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195394836
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Warfare written by Michael Jerryson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers eight essays examining the dark side of a tradition often regarded as the religion of peace. The authors note the conflict between the Buddhist norms of non-violence and the prohibition of the killing of sentient beings and acts of state violence supported by the Buddhist community (sangha), acts of civil violence in which monks participate, and Buddhist intersectarian violence.
Author : Vanina Bouté
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 981472226X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Changing Lives in Laos written by Vanina Bouté and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investment, and disruptions to rural life arising from improved communications and new forms of mobility within and across the borders have produced a major transformation. Alongside these changes, a group of young scholars carried out studies that document the rise of a new social, cultural and economic order. The contributions to this volume draw on original fieldwork materials and unpublished sources, and provide fresh analyses of topics ranging from the structures of power to the politics of territoriality and new forms of sociability in emerging urban spaces.
Author : Anthony J. Spires
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000605493
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia written by Anthony J. Spires and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly reveals the challenges facing civil society in authoritarian regimes, including: actions under political repression, transitions to democracy, uncivil society, political capture and legal control. It features in-depth analyses of a variety of Asian nations, from ‘hard’ authoritarian regimes, like China, to ‘electoral’ authoritarian regimes, like Cambodia, whilst also addressing countries experiencing democratic regression, such as the Philippines. By highlighting concrete responses and initiatives taken by civil society under authoritarianism, it advances the intellectual mandate of redefining Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation and, moreover, as a space for the production of new theoretical insight. Contributing to our understanding of the tensions, dynamics, and potentialities that animate state-society relations in authoritarian regimes, this will be essential reading for students and scholars of civil society, authoritarianism, and Asian politics more generally.
