Being Creative With Tradition: Rooting Theravàda Buddhism in Britain

Beginning in the 1970s, the founders of classical sociology began to be criticized for making naive and crude assumptions about the distinction between the notion of tradition and the notion of modernity. Sociologists, such as Edward Shils and S. N. Eisenstadt, and historians, led by EricHobsbawm an...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Global Buddhism
Main Author: Sandra Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for the Study of Global Buddhism 2000-02-01
Online Access:http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/14