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| B. R. Ambedkar, Karl Marx, and The Neo-Buddhist Revival | ||
| 作者 | Kinsey, John Robert (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2008.01 |
| 頁次 | 8 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 碩士 |
| 校院名稱 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 系所名稱 | Religious Studies |
| 指導教授 | Loriliai Biernacki |
| 關鍵詞 | Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; India |
| 摘要 | Although B.R. Ambedkar has been widely recognized for his social, religious, and political reforms in India, he has not yet been recognized as the innovative, Neo-Marxist theorist that I will here demonstrate him to be. By re-structuring Marxist theory so as to replace the traditional economic base and social superstructure with a model that places religion as the base and economics and politics as the superstructure, Ambedkar imparted a flexibility to Marxist theory that allows for it to be culturally situated and, therefore, more appropriately utilized in various contexts. In order to fully appreciate the breath of Ambedkar’s work, it is necessary to keep a keen eye on the sociopolitical, economic, and religious context in which Ambedkar was situated. Doing so will provide insight not only into his justifications for modifying Marxist theory in the manner in which he did, but will likewise shed light into our understandings of Indian culture. As evidence of this, I suggest that the contemporary Buddhist revival in India, which is still going strong over 50 years after Ambedkar’s death, is so successful precisely because of Ambedkar’s advancements in Marxist theory. As such, I here argue that the contemporary Buddhist revival in India, known as Neo-Buddhism, Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Buddhism, and Navayāna Buddhism, would be better understood simply as “Marxist Buddhism.” |
| 點閱次數 | 549 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.04.10 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.04.10 |
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