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Baptizing Burma
Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Baptizing Burma explores the history of how the American Baptist mission to Burma failed to convert the country yet succeeded in transforming its religious landscape.
Author / Editor information
Alexandra Kaloyanides is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Pamela Klassen, author of The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land:
Rich with multi-perspectival sources and stories, Baptizing Burma offers a fascinating vantage point onto the material culture of nineteenth-century American Baptist missionaries to Burma. Alexandra Kaloyanides invites her reader to consider the lingering resonances of these missionaries and their images, sites of memory, and writings among U.S. and Burmese Baptists today.
Rich with multi-perspectival sources and stories, Baptizing Burma offers a fascinating vantage point onto the material culture of nineteenth-century American Baptist missionaries to Burma. Alexandra Kaloyanides invites her reader to consider the lingering resonances of these missionaries and their images, sites of memory, and writings among U.S. and Burmese Baptists today.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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ONE The Book Religious Texts of Nineteenth-Century Burma
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TWO The School Models of Religious Imagination in Burmese Education
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THREE The Pagoda Icons and Iconoclasm
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FOUR The Portrait American Jesus in Burma
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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June 30, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780231553315
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35 b&w illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9780231553315
Keywords for this book
Christian missionary; American Baptists; Christian evangelism; Burma; Karen people; Protestantism; religious studies; Buddhism; imperialism; colonialism; Southeast Asian history; material culture; religious objects; pagoda
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
