Theravada Buddhist encounters with modernity / edited by Juliane Schober and Steven Collins.

Although recent scholarship has shown that the term 'Theravada' in the familiar modern sense is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construct, it is now used to refer to the more than 150 million people around the world who practice that form of Buddhism. Buddhist practices such as meditat...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors:	Schober, Juliane (Editor), Collins, Steven, 1951-2018 (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, 2017.
Series:	Routledge critical studies in Buddhism.
Subjects:	Theravāda Buddhism. Theravāda Buddhism > Social aspects.