Juliane Schober

Her publications can be accessed at http://asu.academia.edu/JulianeSchober

Selected Publications:

Books

Theravada Buddhist Encounter with Modernity, Juliane Schober and Steven Collins, editors (Routledge, 2017).                 

Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar (University of Hawai’i, 2011) 

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual and Art, co-edited with Stephen Berkwitz and Claudia Brown (Routledge, 2008).

Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, Editor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997; reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.

Articles and Essays:

Belonging in a New Myanmar: Identity, Law and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, special issue on the Anthropology of Buddhism, vol. 8 (2017): 158-172.

To Be Burmese is to Be Buddhist: Formations of Buddhist Modernity in Colonial Burma, Buddhism and Colonialism in Asia, Th. Borchert ed., Routledge, 2018: 21-41.        

Theravada Buddhist Civilizations and Their Modern Formations, co-authored with S. Collins, Theravada Buddhist Encounter with Modernity, J.Schober and S.Collins, eds., 2017:.3-16.

Mőnche in Myanmar, in Myanmar - Das Goldene Land, Georg Noak and Ines de Casro, eds., Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, 2014: 23-35.

Genealogies in the Study of Religion in Burma, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, special issue on “Communities of Interpretation in the Study of Burma,”  39(2), pp. 255-267, June 2008.

Educating the 'Other': Buddhism and Colonial Knowledge in Burma, in Buddhism, Power and Political Order, Ian Harris (ed.), Routledge Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism Series, 2007: 52-70.

Acharn Mun (1870-1949); Aung San Suu Kyi (b.19, June, 45); Bodies of the Buddha; Buddhadasa (1926-1993) Disciples of the Budda; Famous Buddhist and Ideal Types; Mahasi Sayadaw (1904-1982); The Life of Siddhartha Gautama; U Nu (1907-1995); in Encyclopedia of Buddhism,  Damien Keown and Charles Prebish, (eds.) London, New York: Routledge. 2007 

Buddhism, Violence and the State in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka, Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia,  L. Cady and S. Simon, eds., Oxon: Routledge, 2006: 51-69.

Buddhism and Modernity im Myanmar, in Buddhism in World Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives,  ABC-Clio, S. Berkwitz, editor, 2006: 73-100.

“Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post-Colonial State in Burma” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (M. Skidmore, ed., Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2005: 113-133). 

Burmese Spirit Lords and their Mediums, Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Mariko Walters (ed.), ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Mapping the Sacred in Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia, Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes: Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia, Ronald Bull (ed.), Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, Arizona State University. Pp.1-29, 2004. 

Sacred Biography, in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Robert Buswell (editor), MacMillan, pp.45-47, 2003.

"Venerating the Buddha's Remains in Burma: From Solitary Practice to the Cultural Hegemony of Communities,” The Journal of Burma Studies, 2001, vol. 6, pp. 111-140.

Paying Homage to the Buddha's Tooth Relic: A Modern Burmese State Ritual. In Frank E. Reynolds and Jason Carbine, editors, A Living Buddhism. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000.

"Buddhist Just Rule and Burmese National Culture: State Patronage of the Chinese Tooth Relic in Myanmar." In History of Religions, February 1997, 36:3, pp. 218-243.

In the Presence of the Buddha: Ritual Veneration of the Burmese Mahamuni Image. In Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, edited by Juliane Schober. Hawaii University Press.