Ryan Schram

Mills 169 (A26)

ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au

25 May 2016

Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2667/12

Gravers, Mikael. 2012. “Monks, Morality and Military: The Struggle for Moral Power in Burma—and Buddhism’s Uneasy Relation with Lay Power.” Contemporary Buddhism 13 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1080/14639947.2012.669278.

Hertzberg, Michael. 2014. “The March of the Monks: On the Political Repertoire of Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.” In The Great Diversity: Trajectories of Asian Development, edited by Christopher M. Dent and Camilla Brautaset, 103–16. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Adams, Brad. Burma–Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma. Human Rights Watch. New York, December 2007. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/burma1207web.pdf.

• Should societies prohibit proselytising, and if so, by who?
• “Semiotic ideology,” a way of understanding how communication works, whether certain kinds of communication are more valuable or more effective than others.
• “Western” semiotic ideology
• There are always contradictions between communication and semiotic ideology.

• “Political Islam” (see Hirschkind 1997).
• Civil religion (see Bellah 1967)
• Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2007)
• Spiritual politics as a radical critique of society (Badiou 2003).

Badiou, Alain. 2003. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. Translated by Ray Brassier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

Fox, Jonathan. 2015. Political Secularism, Religion, and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levitt, Peggy. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

_. 2007. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New Press.