Baptizing Burma - Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Book: Religious Texts of Nineteenth-Century Burma
2: The School: Models of Religious Imagination in Burmese Education
3: The Pagoda: Icons and Iconoclasm
4: The Portrait: American Jesus in Burma
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Alexandra Kaloyanides is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Kaloyanides
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2023
• EAN: 9780231199841
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19984-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Myanmar, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Buddhism, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, History of Religion, Asian History, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Myanmar (Burma), Buddhism: branches and groups