Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar 9780824877545

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Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
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Chika Watanabe

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Moral Imaginations of Becoming One
Chapter 1. A History of the Nonreligious
Chapter 2. The Politics of “Shinto” Environmentalism
Chapter 3. Making a Universal Furusato (Homeplace)
Chapter 4. Muddy Labor
Chapter 5. Being Like Family
Chapter 6. Discipline as Care
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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