Buddhism Transformed (eBook)

Religious Change in Sri Lanka

Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere (Autoren)

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2021
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22685-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abhayagiri • Abhidhamma texts • Arhat • Asceticism • Astrology • automatic writing • awareness • Baseline Road, Demaṭagoḍa • Bellanvila temple • Bhakti • Bhikkhu • Bhikkhuni • Biyagama nunnery • black magic • Bodhi • Bodhisattva • Brahma • Brahmin • Buddhaghosa • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Buddhist art • Buddhist Ethics • Buddhist Meditation • Buddhist modernism • buddhist society • buddhist temple • buddhist texts • caste • celibacy • chastity • Christian • Christian Mission • Clergy • Däḍimuṇḍa • deity • development, economic • Dharma • Dhātuvaṃsa • Doctrine • education, modern • embourgeoisement • Exorcism • Exorcist • Family planning • Ficus Religiosa • firewalking • firewalking, firewalkers • Five Precepts • folk religion • Four Great Kings • gammaḍuva • Gautama Buddha • God • Gratitude • Hanuman • Hindu • Hindu deities • Hinduism • hindu mythology • Hindu temple • Hippocrates • hypnotism • iconographic change • Ideology • impermanence • Incumbent (ecclesiastical) • Invocation • Ipso facto • Jainism • Jātaka stories • Jayanta • Jesus • Käbälläva • Kaňduboḍa • Kartikeya • Kaśyapa Buddha • Kataragama • Kavi • Kiri Vehera • Krishnamurti • Kurumbara • Laity • Literacy • Literature • Lobsang Rampa • Lunāva • Mahāvaṃsa • Mahayana • Mahāyāna • Maitreya • marriage ceremony • meditation centers • Monastery • Monasticism • Mr. • Muslim • Nāgārjuna • Nandimitra • nun • officiant • Oracles • Ordination • Orientalism • Palani • Pattini • Pentecostalism • piety • Pilgrimage • Population Growth • Possession • prapatti • procession • Protestantism • Puritans • Refuge (Buddhism) • Reincarnation • Religion • Religiosity • religious text • Renunciation • Rite • Saman (deity) • Sanskrit • sect • Sermon • shrine • Sinhalese people • Skanda (Buddhism) • Soteriology • South India • Spirit Possession • Sri Lanka • Stupa • Tamils • Ten Precepts (Taoism) • The Buddhist (TV channel) • Theosophy • The Other Hand • The Venerable • Trance • Tutelary deity • Vegetarianism • vesak • Vipassana • VoW • Witchcraft • Worship
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22685-7 / 0691226857
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22685-9 / 9780691226859