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The Social Complexity of Southeast Asian Religion: The Current Debate on Buddhism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Hans-Dieter Evers
Hans-Dieter Evers
Affiliation:
Universität Bielefeld

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Correspondence
Information
The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , November 1977 , pp. 183 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977

References

1 Ames, M., “Buddha and the Dancing Goblins: A Theory of Magic and Religion,” American Anthropologist, LXVI (1964), pp. 75–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar and my comment “Magic and Religion in Sinhalese Society,” ibid., LXVII (1965), pp. 97–99; Obeyesekere, G., “The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,” JAS, XXI (1963), pp. 139–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar At that time, I subscribed to the same point of view: “Die soziale Organisation der singhalesischen Religion,” Köner Zeitschrift für Soziologie, XVI (1964), pp. 314–26.Google Scholar

2 Norman, K. R., Review of Monks, Priests and Peasants in Journal of Modern Asian Studies, X (1976), pp. 466–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Wee, Vivienne, “‘Buddhism’ in Singapore” in Hassan, Riaz (ed.), Singapore: Society in in Transition (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976), pp. 155–88.Google Scholar The only “sects” of some importance in modern Theravada Buddhism appear to have been millenarian movements, which, as Charles Keyes has pointed out, were “transitory” phenomena, expressing a “profound social crisis” (“Millennialism, Theravada Buddhism, and Thai Society,” JAS, XXXVI [1977], p. 302). Neither these movements nor the temporary increase of “Brahmanism” has led to the formation of persistent sects.