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100 1 _aMcDaniel, Justin Thomas.
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245 1 0 _aArchitects of Buddhist Leisure :
_bSocially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks
264 1 _bUniversity of Hawai'i / Hawai?i Press
_c2016.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2017
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource.
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338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aBuddhism, 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.
546 _aEnglish.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
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830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/49883/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 Global Cultural Studies
945 _aProject MUSE - 2017 Asian and Pacific Studies
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