RELG 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mahatma Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Buddhist Modernism
1 Dec 2016
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Born into an ethnoreligious group that you cant exit. Religious criteria formed borders in india at the time. Swami vivekananda: transmits the idea of hinduism to the west (europe and na) 100 years ago. English scholars suggesting hinduism of a certain kind as a modern religion. Sri lankan buddhist who is in north america. He is there as a representative of south buddhism and he is a global gure who is intermingling with a lot of people with british india and in the west. Neo protestant buddhism not only is under the in uence of the west and a protestant understanding of what religion is based on text, there is an immediate presence of christian missionaries. There is an element of competitive rivalry and defence. How do we have to consider religion in a modern sense so there could be a formidable presence. Ghandi fasts to death if he doesn"t get his way to the british.
