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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1189–1191.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Erik Braun The final chapter considers what the situation described in previous chapters bodes for the political future in Burma. Schober argues that it is clear that the Burmese trajectory of development will not follow the Western (particularly European) model, in which religion becomes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 350–352.
Published: 01 February 2008
... interpret and evaluate the “spiritual warfare” that Schober and Houtman examine. Foregrounding “rumors” and political satires as vehicles through which public opinion is disseminated and negotiated, Tosa shows that rumors in Burma “express the outrage that a predominantly orthodox Buddhist population feels...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1031–1047.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., most notably in the form of meditation movements. In Burma, the more independent of these movements square off against a regime-backed Buddhism, creating deeply opposed religious imaginaries. The Theravada movements (Jordt 2007 ; Schober 1995 ; Scott 2009 , 74, 84) share a characteristic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 933–935.
Published: 01 August 2010
... to the expanding scholarly discourse on Buddhism and materiality. The editors, Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown, have done an admirable job of bring together a diverse and nicely balanced set of perspectives on Buddhist texts, on their production and use and care in specific contexts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 526.
Published: 01 August 2000
... Cosmo, Michael A. Fuller, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan Judge, Mark Peterson, Indira Viswanathan Peterson, William R. Pinch, Ann Sherif, Juliane Schober, Laurie J. Sears, Anne Walthall, and Ann Waltner, above all, deserves our gratitude for a job well done. Thanks also to the many colleagues who have toiled...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 107–142.
Published: 01 February 2008
... ; Gombrich and Obeyesekere 1988 ; Katz 2003 ; Schober 1995 ; Seneviratne 1999 ; Suwanna 1990 ; Swearer 1991 ; Tambiah 1976 ; cf. Kirsch 1978 ; Gosling 1992 ). 2 These trends are all varying responses to the heart of the problem as it has been described in Western scholarship: As the countries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 861–886.
Published: 01 November 2017
... : University of Arizona Press . Schober Juliane . 2004 . “ Burmese Spirit Lords and Their Mediums .” In Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture , eds. Mariko Namba Walter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 897–898.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of the Premodern China Book Review Editorship. Juliane Schober will henceforth be the Southeast Asia Book Review Editor, taking on that position from Craig Lockard who deserves our heartfelt thanks for his long and outstanding service in that role. Finally, this issue is the last one for our two excellent South...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 477–478.
Published: 01 May 2004
... (Religion and Legitimation of Power in Thailand, Laos, and Burma [Chambersberg, Pa.: ANIMA Books, 1978] and Religion and Legitimation of Power in South Asia [Leiden: Brill, 1978 and Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, edited by Julianne Schober (Honolulu: University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1083–1105.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Southeast Asia Studies . Schober J . 1988 . “ The Path to Buddhahood: The Spiritual Mission and Social Organization of Mysticism in Contemporary Burma .” Crossroads 4 ( 1 ): 13 – 30 . Schober J . 1997 . “ Buddhist Just Rule and Burmese National Culture: State Patronage of the Chinese Tooth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 655–677.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., Buddhist monks not only encouraged violence, but directly participated in violent acts (Schober 2006 ). The most expansive literature linking Buddhism to violence and nationalism, however, relates to modern-day Sri Lanka. Following Stanley Tambiah's controversial 1986 and 1992 books about Buddhism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 February 2002
... are treated in Juliane Schober's account of a 1994 tooth-relic procession sponsored by the military government of Myanmar; the adaptation of Buddhist ritual to the conditions of modernity is treated in Richard Gombrich's account of a new and distinctly modern Buddhist ritual from Sri Lanka...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1059–1079.
Published: 01 November 2014
... acute for authoritarian states since they lack the legitimizing tools of democratic regimes. Hence, Schober ( 2005 , 114) highlights the importance of Buddhism in Burma prior to recent reforms, arguing that: “In the absence of secular means of legitimation – for instance, a national constitution...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 646–671.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., was politically nonthreatening because it was “scripturalist [and] nonpolitical” (Schober 2011 : 83). The new system gave the government close oversight over monastic property, income, membership, and succession, helping the state “ensure that donations by affluent lay persons in the free-market sector would...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1083–1104.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . “ On the Place of U Nu's Buddhist Socialism in Burma's History of Ideas .” In Studies on Asia , ed. Robert K. Sakai , 53 – 62 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Schober Juliane...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 895–917.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and dignity in the face of far-reaching social change” (Hefner 2010 , 1034; see also Frisk 2009 , Jordt 2007 , and Schober 2011 ; cf. Mahmood 2005 ). Of broader concern is that gendered and sexual violence perpetrated by state agents and their policies, some of which are central to deeply contested...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 711–732.
Published: 01 August 2014
... . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Press . Sarkisyanz E . 1965 . Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution . The Hague : M. Nijhoff . Schober Juliane . 2007 . “ Buddhism, Violence and the State in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka .” In Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 494–503.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., 371 pp. $18.95 (paper). SALZBERG, Sharon, ed. Voices of Insight: Teachers of Buddhism in the West Share Their Wisdom, Stories, and Experiences of Insight Meditation. Boston and London: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1999- xiii, 281 pp. $23.95 (cloth). SCHOBER, Juliane, ed. Sacred Biography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 745–766.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., James Rush, Yasmin Saikia, Lee Schlesinger, Juliane Schober, and Shahla Talebi, as well as other participants in the 18th International Conference on Maharashtra at the University of Texas at Austin (January 2019) and in a session on the paper at the Center for Asian Research at Arizona State University...
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