Colors of the Robe – Religion, Identity, and Difference
Religion, Identity, and Difference
Series: Studies in Comparative Religion;
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Product details:
- Publisher MP–SCA Uni of South Carolina
- Date of Publication 30 September 2008
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781570037870
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 228x152x16 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English 0
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Probes the Sri Lankan world of Buddhism and politics and suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, culture, and violence. This volume illuminates the shifting configurations that animate the relations connected with postcolonial religious identity and culture.
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"This book offers a compelling case study of Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka.""""Colors of the Robe"""" probes the Sri Lankan world of Buddhism and politics and suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, culture, and violence. In a volume that surpasses other studies in locating Sri Lankan Buddhism in its sectarian, ethnic, cultural, social, and political constructions, Ananda Abeysekara illuminates the shifting configurations that animate the relations connected with postcolonial religious identity and culture.Drawing on extensive field research in Sri Lanka, Abeysekara illustrates how differing discourses about Buddhism come into central view and then fade. He develops the concept of 'minute conjunctures of contingency' and places it in modest opposition to the Foucauldian (and postcolonial) conceptions of history and identity. Abeysekara suggests that the conjunctures of contingency help realize that Buddhism, identity, and difference do not remain simply available for disciplinary apprehension. This way of thinking about the unavailability of Buddhism, he contends, has profound political implications for how we might more generally think about and begin to disrupt entrenched presumptions of postcolonial cultural difference."
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