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Cambridge University Press The Sociology of Early Buddhism

Name: The Sociology of Early Buddhism
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Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of religion.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521025214
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 March 2006
Listed Since: 02 February 2007

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