How to behave : Buddhism and modernity in colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930 / Anne Ruth Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Anne Ruth.

Series:

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist modernism--Cambodia--History--19th century.

Buddhist modernism.

Buddhist modernism--Cambodia--History--20th century.

Buddhist ethics--Cambodia.

Buddhist ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 254 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ambitious cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defending the Jeweled Throne: Khmer Religious Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

2. Buddhist Responses to Social Change

3. Vinaya Illuminations: The Rise of "Modern Dhamma"

4. Colonial Collusions

5. How Should We Behave? Modernist Translations of Theravāda Buddhism

Archives and Special Collections

Notes

Sources

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780824861094

0824861094

9781435666191

1435666194

OCLC:

256492095