Description: Further DetailsTitle: Baptizing BurmaCondition: NewSubtitle: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist KingdomISBN-10: 0231199848EAN: 9780231199841ISBN: 9780231199841Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/20/2023Description: Shortlisted, 2024 EuroSEAS Book Prize in the Humanities, European Association for Southeast Asian StudiesIn July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in Rangoon to preach the gospel. Celebrated in the Protestant press, which ran dramatic accounts of exotic adventures, the attempt to convert the Burmese met with mixed results. Although Burmese Buddhists resisted Christian evangelism, people from minority communities were baptized in large numbers throughout the nineteenth century. American Baptist Christianity was itself transformed in the Buddhist kingdom. Missionaries who were initially horrified by what they saw as the idolatry of Buddha statues found themselves creating tree shrines and their converts hanging colorful Jesus paintings in their churches.Baptizing Burma explores the history of how the American Baptist mission to Burma failed to convert the country yet succeeded in transforming its religious landscape. Alexandra Kaloyanides examines how the Burmese majority positioned Buddhism to counter Christianity, how marginalized groups took on Baptist identities, and how Protestantism was reimagined as a Southeast Asian religion. She considers a series of holy objects to reveal the mechanics of religious practice in a period of entangled empires—British, Burmese, and American. By telling stories of four key things—the sacred book, the school house, the pagoda, and the portrait—this book illuminates the histories of Burma’s last kingdom and the unexpected consequences of America’s first overseas mission.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Alexandra KaloyanidesGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: HistoryBook Series: Religion, Culture, and Public LifeRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Baptizing Burma
Title: Baptizing Burma
Subtitle: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0231199848
EAN: 9780231199841
ISBN: 9780231199841
Release Date: 06/20/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Baptizing Burma : Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Buddhism / Theravada, Asia / Southeast Asia, Christianity / General, History
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, History
Author: Alexandra Kaloyanides
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
