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Session 1: Theravada Buddhism in Traditional Southeast Asian Culture
Session 2: Theravada Buddhism in Modern Contexts: Changing Structures of Authority
PowerPoint© Presentation
Reading:
Juliane Schober, “Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post-Colonial State in Burma,” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Monique Skidmore (ed.), University of Hawaii Press, 2005 (pp113-133)
Donald Swearer, Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia, Anima Books, 1981 (pp1-65)
Juliane Schober (PhD., Anthropology) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and a former director of the Program for Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on Theravada Buddhist practices, ritual and the veneration of images. Her publications include an edited volume on Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia (Hawaii University Press , 1997), numerous encyclopedia essays and recent articles, such as “ Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post‑Colonial State in Burma” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty‑First Century (University of Hawai`i Press, M. Skidmore, ed., 2005: 113-133 ) and “ Buddhism and Modernity in Myanmar” in Buddhism in World Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives (ABC-Clio, S. Berkwitz , ed., 2006). Her current project traces the genealogies of modern Buddhism in Myanmar.
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