Buddhism and society: a great tradition and its Burmese vicissitudes

Type

Book

Authors

Melford E. Spiro

ISBN 10

0520046722

ISBN 13

9780520046726

Tags

Buddhism, General, Burma, BU-WORL, World Buddhism, Myanmar, BU-PRAC, Buddhist rituals and practices

Description

It is now customary for anthropologists studying religion to pay at most lip service to formalized religious doctrine. Such works, in a functionalist tradition , tell us a great deal about the social and economic organization of religious action and about the postulated social background of religious ideas. - from Amzon

Biblio Notes

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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