{"product_id":"colors-of-the-robe-religion-identity-and-difference-paperback","title":"Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnanda Abeysekara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling case study of Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eColors of the Robe\u003c\/i\u003e probes the Sri Lankan world of Buddhism and politics and suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, culture, and violence. In a volume that surpasses other studies in locating Sri Lankan Buddhism in its sectarian, ethnic, cultural, social, and political constructions, Ananda Abeysekara illuminates the shifting configurations that animate the relations connected with postcolonial religious identity and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive field research in Sri Lanka, Abeysekara illustrates how differing discourses about Buddhism come into central view and then fade. He develops the concept of \"minute conjunctures of contingency\" and places it in modest opposition to the Foucauldian (and postcolonial) conceptions of history and identity. Abeysekara suggests that the conjunctures of contingency help realize that Buddhism, identity, and difference do not remain simply available for disciplinary apprehension. This way of thinking about the unavailability of Buddhism, he contends, has profound political implications for how we might more generally think about and begin to disrupt entrenched presumptions of postcolonial cultural difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnanda Abeysekara\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of religious studies at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730477387839,"sku":"9781570037870","price":67.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a380476582572a3116c0caf408c64cb8.webp?v=1765126017","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/colors-of-the-robe-religion-identity-and-difference-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}