DOC African-American Odyssey; The; Combined Volume (6th Edition) by Darlene Clark Hine; William C. Hine; Stanley C. Harrold in History

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Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political; religious; and educational discourse; and Christianity? And how did Sri Lankan Buddhists; collaborating with other Asian Buddhists; respond to colonial rule? To answer these questions; Anne M. Blackburn focuses on the life of leading monk and educator Hikkaduve Sumangala (1827–1911) to examine more broadly Buddhist life under foreign rule.In Locations of Buddhism; Blackburn reveals that during Sri Lanka’s crucial decades of deepening colonial control and modernization; there was a surprising stability in the central religious activities of Hikkaduve and the Buddhists among whom he worked. At the same time; they developed new institutions and forms of association; drawing on pre-colonial intellectual heritage as well as colonial-period technologies and discourse. Advocating a new way of studying the impact of colonialism on colonized societies; Blackburn is particularly attuned here to human experience; paying attention to the habits of thought and modes of affiliation that characterized individuals and smaller scale groups. Locations of Buddhism is a wholly original contribution to the study of Sri Lanka and the history of Buddhism more generally.