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Legami (titoli analitici): vol. 68 n. 2 2009

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Copertina Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion : [fasciolo monografico]

Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion : [fasciolo monografico] / Guest Editors Hiroko Kawanami and Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

Abstract/Sommario: Nel fascicolo monografico compaiono i seguenti saggi: Introduction: Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion / Hiroko Kawanami ( it is difficult to contest the dominant paradigm and prevailing orthodoxy in the study of Myanmar religion, from the oppositional typology imposed on Buddhism depicted as the main religion, and other non-Buddhist forms of religious practice subordinated to the former. Throughout the issue, an attempt is made to get to the core of r ...; [Leggi tutto...] Nel fascicolo monografico compaiono i seguenti saggi: Introduction: Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion / Hiroko Kawanami ( it is difficult to contest the dominant paradigm and prevailing orthodoxy in the study of Myanmar religion, from the oppositional typology imposed on Buddhism depicted as the main religion, and other non-Buddhist forms of religious practice subordinated to the former. Throughout the issue, an attempt is made to get to the core of religious power in its socio-cultural traditions in order to understand how the relationships of power is manifested in many different hierarchies. In addition, attention is given to the political dimension of Buddhism when State hegemony asserts its dominance over local religious traditions in border regions); An Overview of the Field of Religion in Burmese Studies / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière (In Burma, as in other Southeast Asian societies in which Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religion, there is a debate among Buddhists about the degree to which practices do or do not conform the Theravada canon); The Cult of Thamanya Sayadaw: the Social Dynamism of a Formulating Pilgrimage Site / Keiko Tosa (The A. describes the process in which a simple village monk, Thamanya Sayadaw, rose to prominence and became a national cult figure in the 1990s. This coincided with a period of political instability, ethnic conflicts, and economic development in Myanmar. His reputation as both an arahant -enlighted one- and a weikza attracted countless pilgrims to his monastery in Karen state. Thamanya Saydaw left a legacy as one of the most remarkable Buddhist saints in contemporary Myanmar, but his passing revealed the problem of the unsustainability of such charisma; his religious land came to be "subordinated by the secular administration" and his center experienced a rapid decline); On the Ambivalence of Female Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism: A Contribution to the Study of the Monastic System in Myanmar / Laure Carbonnel (The A. explores another ambiguous religious position in Myanmar Buddhism: the nuns observed to be in between the monks and the laity. They are recipients of donations for the laity, whilst acting as donors for monks); "Nats Wives" or "Children Nats": From Spirit Possession to Transmission Among the Ritual Specialists of the Cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière (The A. examines three cases of the succession of spirit mediums affiliated with the cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords. Although spirit possession is normally imagined to take place as the results of spirits communicating their "will", the article shows how the transmission of authority is made viable otherwise); A New Palace for Mra Swan Dewi: Changes in Spirit Cults in Arakan (Rakhine ) State / Alexandra de Mersan (The article tells the story of the wife of a member of the Myanmar military who was posted in Arakan state. The wife established a new shrine representing an Arakanese spirit known as Mra Swan Dewi: a local cult was used to legitimate political hegemony over a peripheral population); Relics, Statues, and Predictions: Interpreting an Apocryphal Sermon of Lord Buddha in Arakan / Jacques P. Leider (focus on the geopolitical positioning of Arakan as a previously independent regional kingdom that has come under the political and religious dominance of the central Myanmar state. The A. examines an apocryphal text that contains a speech of the Buddha who enlists relics linked to his former lives in Arakan, providing a unique perspective on the creation of Arakanese myth. The Arakanese have never produced a genre of royal chronicles as we find in the Myanmar dynasties, and the article highlights its regional uniqueness as well as its disconnection from the Pali orthodoxy);