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Claiming Democratic Bodies, Ethics, and Equality 要求民主机构、道德与平等

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375383

Kamilia Al-Eriani

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The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana 泰伦加纳邦的佛塔复制品

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375357

Catherine Becker

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Introduction 介绍

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375305

Douglas Ober, David Geary

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Editors' Note 编者注

Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375291

{"title":"Editors' Note","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/1089201x-10375291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-10375291","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| May 01 2023 Editors' Note Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 1. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10375291 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Editors' Note. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 2023; 43 (1): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10375291 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search Among the many narratives gifted by the colonial excavations of subcontinental pasts, one is the flight of Buddhism from “India” eastward. For the colonial imagination, Islam's violent incursion into the subcontinent in the early eighth century marked the end of Buddhist dominion (and brought about the “Dark Ages” of Hinduism). While scholars have done much to combat such ahistoricist renderings, it remains an ongoing exercise to reimagine (and re-enliven) the relationship between people, faith, and space. This issue opens with a special section, “Buddhist Homelands: Transregional Pathways,” that productively restages the encounter between Hinduism and Buddhism, on the one hand, and modernity and the nation-state on the other. In interrogating the concepts of homeland and diaspora, the section allows us to pay particular attention to embodied movements and the spaces of ritual (temples, say) around which much of contemporary politics is organized.The agitated categories of movement and belonging are... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":51756,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East","volume":"313 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136338611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Uprooted Memories 根深蒂固的记忆

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375396

Zainab Saleh

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“Little Tibet” “小西藏”

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375318

Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg

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A Great, Restless Stream 大河不息

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375409

T. Crowley

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Nalanda Rising 那烂陀崛起

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10375331

John A. Marston, David Geary

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On Dankwa’s Gift 论丹夸的礼物

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148207

T. Hendriks

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Doing Knowledge through Knowing Women 通过了解女性来获取知识