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Colonial Interventions in Buddhist Authority and the Demise of Traditional Culture Colonial Interventions in Buddhist Authority and the Demise of Traditional Culture
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Buddhist Modernity in Regional Contexts Buddhist Modernity in Regional Contexts
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Transnational Hybridity in Colonial Rangoon Transnational Hybridity in Colonial Rangoon
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Secularism in a Buddhist World Secularism in a Buddhist World
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2 The Emergence of the Secular in Modern Burma
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Published:November 2010
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This chapter discusses how the European colonialism has changed Buddhist modernity in Asia. One of the hallmarks of this conquest is the fragmentation of authority that results from the simultaneous affirmation of distinct, even contradictory, bodies of knowledge like, for example, science and religion. The experience of modernity in Burma through British colonization brought about a cultural and religious crisis of authority that had an enduring impact on the country's history. Emerging from this collision of western and Buddhist worldviews was a radically changed social order that lacked the totalizing conceptual coherence of a traditional Theravada polity. Such changes often create the sort of contradictions that Charles Keyes described as a Buddhist crisis of authority.
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