Gananath Obeyesekere

Gebundenes Buch

The Buddha in Sri Lanka

Histories and Stories

Beschreibung

This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. It offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths in contrast to the perspective involving deconstruction. It also deals with oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, identity and culture, and issues of modernity.

Autor

Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA where he has taught for 20 years. His recent publications include The Awakened Ones: An Essay on the Phenomenology of the Visionary Experience (2012); Cannibal Talk: The Man-eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas (2005); and Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth and Karma and Rebirth: A Cross-Cultural Study (2002/2006). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Polish and Turkish, and his essays have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781138713628
• ISBN-10: 1138713627
• Artikelnr.: 53305226