Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation

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dc.contributor.advisorChidester, Daviden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWratten, Darrelen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-14T08:34:18Z
dc.date.available2015-09-14T08:34:18Z
dc.date.issued1995en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves [384]-441.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis provides the first narrative of a history of Buddhism in South Africa. In the absence of any coherent analysis, it thus seeks to expose an historical lacuna in the study of religions in the region and to redress an academic aphasia that appears preeminent in recent "authoritative" pronouncements. It suggests, in fact, that Buddhism was both present in the histories of religious pluralism and pervasive among the contours of a geography of religious diversity in South Africa since at least the 1680s. In so doing, the thesis further attempts to make the apparent "strangeness" of Buddhism in South Africa appear more familiar, and the familiar, quotidian history of religions in the region appear unconventional or exceptional. Consequently, the thesis also asks how the presence of Buddhism outside of a "normative" Asian origin can help to redefine the meaning of Buddhism and how the presence of Buddhism in South Africa, can help to refine the meaning of religion. However, in drawing on published materials, travelogues, archives, correspondence, interviews, and fieldwork, the primary assertion of the thesis is one that traces how, in that history, Buddhism was initially inscribed according to a textual imagination that was conditioned by articles and artifacts, and how that tradition was subsequently reinvented in the context of innovative, localized practice to create a living religion in the region.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWratten, D. (1995). <i>Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13866en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWratten, Darrel. <i>"Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13866en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWratten, D. 1995. Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Wratten, Darrel AB - This thesis provides the first narrative of a history of Buddhism in South Africa. In the absence of any coherent analysis, it thus seeks to expose an historical lacuna in the study of religions in the region and to redress an academic aphasia that appears preeminent in recent "authoritative" pronouncements. It suggests, in fact, that Buddhism was both present in the histories of religious pluralism and pervasive among the contours of a geography of religious diversity in South Africa since at least the 1680s. In so doing, the thesis further attempts to make the apparent "strangeness" of Buddhism in South Africa appear more familiar, and the familiar, quotidian history of religions in the region appear unconventional or exceptional. Consequently, the thesis also asks how the presence of Buddhism outside of a "normative" Asian origin can help to redefine the meaning of Buddhism and how the presence of Buddhism in South Africa, can help to refine the meaning of religion. However, in drawing on published materials, travelogues, archives, correspondence, interviews, and fieldwork, the primary assertion of the thesis is one that traces how, in that history, Buddhism was initially inscribed according to a textual imagination that was conditioned by articles and artifacts, and how that tradition was subsequently reinvented in the context of innovative, localized practice to create a living religion in the region. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1995 T1 - Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation TI - Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13866 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13866
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWratten D. Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13866en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherBuddhismen_ZA
dc.titleBuddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovationen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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