RT Article
T1 Nationalism and Buddhist Youth Groups in the Japanese, British, and American Empires, 1880s–1930s
JF Journal of global buddhism
VO 22
IS 2
SP 341
OP 359
A1 Stein, Justin B.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801656835
AB In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, Buddhists in imperial Japan, the British Raj, and the American empire developed lay-oriented youth groups. These groups’ members developed intertwined ethnoreligious and national identities informed by Buddhists’ relative status in these three empires. This article describes the trans-imperial development of early Buddhist youth groups, examines how these groups developed nationalist politics that were often intertwined with ethnic identity, and considers how the concept of "Buddhist youth" flattened differences unite lay Buddhists across various divides.
K1 British Burma
K1 Buddhist nationalism
K1 Ceylon
K1 Hawaii
K1 Japan
K1 United States
K1 YMBA
K1 Colonialism
K1 ethno-nationalism
K1 trans-imperial
DO 10.5281/zenodo.4727657