Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand by Trakulhun, Sven
Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand by Trakulhun, Sven

Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

Confronting Christianity explores the history of religious encounters between Christian missionaries and Thai Buddhists during the nineteenth...
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Author: Sven Trakulhun
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Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand by Trakulhun, Sven

Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

$237.83
Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand by Trakulhun, Sven

Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

$237.83
Author: Sven Trakulhun
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Confronting Christianity explores the history of religious encounters between Christian missionaries and Thai Buddhists during the nineteenth century, a period of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia that fundamentally transformed Siamese society and religious institutions. From about 1830 onward, discussions on religion became a central arena of conflict between rival regimes of knowledge in Thailand, confronting traditional Buddhist views on nature and man's existence with the ideals and practices of science and rationalism coming from the West. Protestant missionaries, mostly from the United States, became important brokers of knowledge, as one of their strengths was the ability to offer religion in tandem with modern science and technology. Historian Sven Trakulhun explains why the intrusion of evangelical Christianity strengthened the position of Theravāda Buddhism rather than undermining people's belief in traditional forms of worship.

Based on a wide range of Thai and Western primary sources, the volume describes how Christian missionaries unwittingly contributed to the making of what scholars of Buddhism have later rendered as "Buddhist modernism." In response to Christian assaults on the traditional cosmology, Buddhist reformers fashioned an orthodox version of Buddhism that acknowledged the findings of modern science and at the same time deemed even more rational than Christianity. This new orthodoxy became a major source of moral authority for Thai kings and an important ideology for pushing their claims for religious leadership in the Theravāda Buddhist world. Trakulhun offers a thorough study of the encounter between Christianity and Buddhism and places the history of Siamese Theravāda Buddhism within the broad context of global intellectual history.

Author: Sven Trakulhun
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 07/31/2024
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780824895747
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