TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,Greg
AU  - Mabbett,Ian W.
TI  - The sociology of early Buddhism
SN  - 0511062966
AV  - BQ4570.S6 B35 2003eb
U1  - 306.6943 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)
KW  - India, Northeastern
KW  - History
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Mediation
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Asie méridionale
KW  - Médiation
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Vie religieuse et monastique
KW  - Inde
KW  - Inde (Nord-Est)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Northeastern India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; BUDDHISM AS PROCESS: THREE VERSIONS OF BUDDHISM; THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS; 1 The problem: asceticism and urban life; THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES; TRADE, CITIES, CENTRALIZED STATES AND REMEMBERED TRIBALISM; LEGITIMATION OF COMMERCIAL VALUES; PROTEST AGAINST COMMERCIAL VALUES; LEGITIMATION OF CITY LIFE; PROTEST AGAINST CITY LIFE; LEGITIMATION OF THE CENTRALIZED STATE; PROTEST AGAINST THE CENTRALIZED STATE; LEGITIMATION OF POST-TRIBAL CULTURE; PROTEST AGAINST POST-TRIBAL CULTURE
N2  - Early Buddhism flourished because it took up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions in the newly emergent Indian states from the fifth century BCE. 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
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