How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860–1930 9780824861094

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How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860–1930
9780824861094

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Anne Ruth Hansen

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Defending the Jeweled Throne: Khmer Religious Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
2. Buddhist Responses to Social Change
3. Vinaya Illuminations: The Rise of “Modern Dhamma”
4. Colonial Collusions
5. How Should We Behave? Modernist Translations of Theravāda Buddhism
Archives and Special Collections
Notes
Sources
Index

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