AP/RLST 4770 3.00 Buddhism in Modern Southeast Asia: Community, Conflict and Change

AP/RLST 4770 3.00

Buddhism in Modern Southeast Asia: Community, Conflict and Change

Explores Buddhist responses to the changing conditions of modernity in Southeast Asia. Seeking to understand Buddhism as a living religion, it investigates how Buddhists have drawn on religious narratives, symbols and rituals to respond to social and political challenges from the nineteenth century to the present, including issues of religious reform, colonialism, nationalism and ethnicity.

RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Buddhism

Course Category: Self, Society and Other