Richard F. Gombrich: Theravāda Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (Second edition.). (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) xiii, 234 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £16.99. ISBN 0 415 36509 0.

2007 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-621
Author(s):  
David Azzopardi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social History ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Theravada Buddhism ◽  
Beliefs And Practices

Henry M. Turner, Negro Bishop Extraordinary

1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Minton Batten
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Church Organization ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Important Field ◽  
American Churches ◽  
The Church

The Negro church presents an important field of investigation to students of American social history. Many slaves found in Christianity a substitute for primitive African religious beliefs and practices and a source for the satisfaction of their religious longings. The churches offered to the American Negro his first opportunities for participation in organized group life in a new environment. Experience in church organization and activity trained thousands of slaves for the larger fields of effort which were opened to them after emancipation. Approximately one-tenth of the present total membership of the American churches belongs to this race. For more than three centuries the church has served as the most important factor in typing the institutions and ideals of our largest minority racial group.

Phra Payutto and Debates ‘On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon’ in Thai Buddhism

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Seeger
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Theravada Buddhism ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Pali Canon ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Pāli Canon

In this paper I investigate a number of public intellectual debates in current Thai Theravada Buddhism that are related to several fundamental questions regarding the meaning and function of the Pali canon. The focal point of this investigation will be debates in which the Thai scholar monk Phra Payutto (b. 1939) has been playing a significant role. In these debates, the Pali canon is regarded as a central text endowed with special normative and formative authority. I will look at contestations that concern Theravada-ness and, at the same time, and inextricably linked with this, at concepts of demarcation to systems of religious beliefs and practices that are believed to be ‘outside’ Theravada. This, of course, engages the question of inclusivism, exclusivism and pluralism within Theravada. In so doing, I explore and posit concepts on the meanings and functions of the Pali canon that position it either as the or an authoritative reference.

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