Architects of Buddhist leisure : socially disengaged Buddhism in Asia's museums, monuments, and amusement parks / / Justin McDaniel
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McDaniel Justin
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| Titolo: |
Architects of Buddhist leisure : socially disengaged Buddhism in Asia's museums, monuments, and amusement parks / / Justin McDaniel
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| Pubblicazione: | Honolulu : , : University of Hawaiʻi Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 725.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architecture and recreation |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Architects of Buddhist Leisure |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Architects of Buddhist Leisure |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910476843903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary Buddhism.