Buddhism Transformed : : Religious Change in Sri Lanka / / Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gombrich, Richard,; Obeyesekere, Gananath,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1989
• Bliain Foilsithe: 2022
• Teanga: English
• Cur Síos Fisiciúil: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY --; PART ONE A New Religious Orientation --; CHAPTER 1 The Subject Defined --; PART TWO Changes in the Spirit Religion --; CHAPTER 2 Re-creating Community: Cult Groups of the Spirit Religion --; CHAPTER 3 Social Change and the Deities --; CHAPTER 4 Kali, the Punitive Mother --; CHAPTER 5 Kataragama, a Center of Hindu-Buddhist Syncretism --; PART THREE Buddhist Developments --; CHAPTER 6 Protestant Buddhism --; CHAPTER 7 The Creation of Tradition --; CHAPTER 8 The Contemporary Resurgence of Nuns --; CHAPTER 9 The Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya: Theosophy and Astrology --; CHAPTER 10 Three Buddhist Leaders --; PART FOUR Toward a New Synthesis? --; CHAPTER 11 The Bōdhi Pūjā --; CHAPTER 12 Sinhala Firewalkers and the Buddhist Appropriation of Kataragama --; CHAPTER 13 Conclusion --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Achoimre: In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Buddhism concerns salvation, the spirit religion focuses on worldly welfare. Buddhism Transformed describes and analyzes the changes that have profoundly altered the character of Sinhala religion in both areas.
• Formáid: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691226859; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691226859?locatt=mode:legacy
• Rochtain: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere.

In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Budd...