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oapen-20.500.12657-316322021-11-04T14:15:39Z Architects of Buddhist Leisure McDaniel, Justin Thomas Philosophy Philosophy Buddhism Gautama Buddha Japa Lumbini Monastery Thailand Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture. 2020-03-13 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:43:08Z 2017-03-30 23:55 2020-03-13 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:43:08Z 2020-04-01T13:43:08Z 2016-11-30 book 626388 OCN: 965772665 9780824874407;9780824879754 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31632 eng Contemporary Buddhism application/pdf n/a 626388.pdf University of Hawai'i Press 10.26530/oapen_626388 100419 10.26530/oapen_626388 3fe12fec-6f5e-4c52-b268-b65ab05c85d3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780824874407;9780824879754 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100419 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
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