Monastic Authority and Legitimizing Religio-Political Activism: Buddhist Nationalist Monks in Myanmar

IF 0.7 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY
Niklas Foxeus
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The Buddhist nationalist movements that emerged during the political and economic liberalization of the second parliamentarian period (2011–2021) in Burma/Myanmar provide unique material for the study of monastic authority. The aim of this article is to examine two overlapping dynamics regarding how monastic authority is established and undermined. As for the first dynamic, the article examines three strategies in Buddhist nationalist sermons aiming to provide legitimacy for the nationalist monks. The second dynamic is a political outgroup criticism that became more common during the period in question. The article makes a distinction between generic monastic authority, which is the fundamental one, and nationalist monastic authority, as they are legitimized and established in different ways. Finally, the article argues that recognition of monastic authority by laypeople is based not merely on trust and respect but tends to be a more complex process.
佛教权威与宗教政治活动合法化——缅甸佛教民族主义僧侣
缅甸第二次议会时期(2011-2021)政治和经济自由化期间出现的佛教民族主义运动为研究寺院权威提供了独特的材料。这篇文章的目的是研究关于寺院权威如何建立和破坏的两个重叠的动态。对于第一种动力,本文考察了佛教民族主义布道中的三种策略,旨在为民族主义僧侣提供合法性。第二种动态是政治外群体批评,这种批评在这一时期变得更为普遍。本文对作为基础的一般寺院权威和民族寺院权威进行了区分,因为它们的合法化和建立方式不同。最后,本文认为俗人对寺院权威的认可不仅仅是基于信任和尊重,而且往往是一个更复杂的过程。
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期刊介绍: Numen publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. The approach of the journal to the study of religion is strictly non-confessional. While the emphasis lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions also address issues that have a wider historical or comparative significance for the advancement of the discipline. Numen also publishes papers that discuss important theoretical innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on the history of the discipline.
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