1. Defending the jeweled throne : Khmer religious imagination in the nineteenth century -- 2. Buddhist responses to social change -- 3. Vinaya illuminations : the rise of "modern dhamma" -- 4. Colonial collusions -- 5. How should we behave? : modernist translations of Theravada Buddhism
Summary
"This ambitious cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia."--BOOK JACKET
