Introduction: Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism

Ladwig, Patrice; Sihlé, Nicolas

doi:10.3167/arrs.2017.080107

Religion and Society

2017

DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2017.080107

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Introduction: Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism

Patrice Ladwig¹,

Nicolas Sihlé²

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“…Take, for example, the emerging Anthropology of Buddhism (e.g. Sihlé and Ladwig 2017), which, within a single journal issue, explores manifestations of Buddhism in Tibet, Buddhism in Myanmar and Buddhism in Thailand. Or take the more established Anthropology of Christianity, which, in Cannell's well-known volume (2006), considers Christianity in its various manifestations across the world, including in Bolivia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Melanesia, Peru and Sweden.…”

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In this commentary, I argue that we need to expose the multiple layers of historical thinking about the production of the category of religion that play into both our scholarly thinking and the way religion is lived, understood and fought for in the lives of our informants. We can no more take the contours (or limits) of any particular religion for granted, or as self‐evident, than we can take the category of religion, named as such, as a natural human phenomenon that is somehow free from the domain of culture.

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The remaking of a Tibetan mountain cult festival: the worship of landscape deities in the Rebgong Valley, Amdo

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The rising importance of the tea business among the Bulang people of Yunnan province, Southwest China, is intimately linked to Theravada Buddhist ideologies and practices. Non-reciprocal merit-making provides a sense of control, and this is particularly important in an increasingly uncertain economic environment. More and more people were ready to engage in high-risk trading, and new rituals emerged precisely at a time when profit margins increased rapidly. The reinvention of local rituals helped people to control risk-taking and to morally legitimize ambiguous market behavior. The result is strong synergies between the ways uncertainty and risk are being addressed in the tea economy and in local religious practice: economic processes are changing religious practices just as much as religious practices are making a difference in economic behavior.

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Introduction: Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism

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