RT Article
T1 The Buddha's precepts on respecting other races and religions?: Thinking about the relationship of ethnicity and Theravada Buddhism
JF Sojourn
VO 29
IS 3
SP 591
OP 626
A1 Borchert, Thomas
LA English
PB Institution
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1642634387
AB Theravada Buddhism is often practised in contexts of significant ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia, but much scholarship has not sufficiently accounted for the role of this diversity in shaping the imagination of Theravada Buddhism among its practitioners in the region. Examination of Theravada Buddhist communities in the three very different contexts of Singapore, Southwest China and Thailand serves as the basis for consideration of this role. Despite the differences among these settings, Theravada Buddhism in each is shaped by state discourses on race and religion. The ways in which Theravada Buddhism and ethnicity in both local and state forms mark each other merits more attention. (Sojourn/GIGA)
K1 Religion
K1 Buddhismus
K1 Ethnizität
K1 Ethnische Gruppe
K1 Singapur
K1 Thailand