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- Foxeus, Niklas, 1967-
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Mimicking the State in Burma/Myanmar : Royal, Nationalist and Militant Ideology in a New Buddhist Movement
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 172:2-3, s. 197-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the early post-independence period in Burma, a large number of hierarchical, initiatory, and secretive esoteric congregations were founded by charismatic leaders in urban areas. These attracted many devotees, including representatives of the state. The relationship between the state and the esoteric congregations was tense, especially during the rule of the military governments (1962–2011), and the state sought to suppress the congregations in the early 1980s.In this article, one esoteric congregation—the ariyā-weizzā organization—is taken as an example of these congregations. First, the article demonstrates how the members of this congregation view themselves as performing the state, and shows what kind of power they perceive themselves to exercise. Second, in socio-political terms, the article seeks to explain why tensions emerged between the state and the esoteric congregations, and it demonstrates how these congregations have contributed to performing the state.
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- Foxeus, Niklas
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Performing the Nation in Myanmar : Buddhist Nationalist Rituals and Boundary-Making
- 2022
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 178:2-3, s. 272-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, Buddhist nationalist movements in Myanmar started to emerge, disseminating a Buddhist nationalist discourse that aimed to protectively demarcate their nation from the perceived threat posed by Muslims. In sermons, monks exhorted their audiences to make nationalist vows to protect their nation, country, and Buddhism. The aim of this article is to investigate some ritual, discursive, and performative aspects of Buddhist nationalist sermons, and the social dynamics they entailed. The article first examines and analyses three recurrent discursive complexes of the Buddhist nationalist sermons delivered in 2013–2015; it will also look at how the monks drew on their social power and on discursive and performative power to create a boundary around their Buddhist nation and to mobilize Buddhists to protect it, thereby performing their nation. Second, the article examines two ways in which sermons that aimed to protect the Buddha’s dispensation (collectivistic religion) contributed to creating social cohesion and community.
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