John Clifford Holt

Broschiertes Buch

Theravada Traditions

Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

Beschreibung

Illustrates how popular, public ritual performance, far from being static, clearly indexes patterns of social and political change. This rich, innovative volume provides a provocative introduction to the practice of Theravada Buddhism and the nature of social change in contemporary Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.

Autor

John Clifford Holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780824867799
• ISBN-10: 0824867793
• Artikelnr.: 52908028