Mongolian Buddhism, Science and Healing: A Modernist Legacy
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Mongolian Buddhism, Science and Healing : A Modernist Legacy. / Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle.
I: Central Asian Survey, Bind 41, Nr. 1, 2022, s. 41-57.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mongolian Buddhism, Science and Healing
T2 - A Modernist Legacy
AU - Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article looks at how the changing relationship between science and religion from the fin de siècle to the present period continues to influence healing practices in Mongolia. It explores how science and religion, rather than being congenitally antithetical to one another, are frequently co-constitutive. By following a few key historical lineages of spiritualism in their dialogue with the Mongolian cultural region, the article illustrates how ongoing exchanges between science and religion have contributed to changes in contemporary Mongolian urban religious practices. As the article illustrates, science, and/or the idea of science, has resulted in changes to lay religious epistemologies and methodologies. At the same time the prestige of science can be utilised as a means of underlining the strength of ritual efficacy, particularly within Buddhism. Yet when science or allopathic medicine fails to explain or to heal, science is utilised as a yardstick against which the transcendent power of ritual becomes evident.
AB - This article looks at how the changing relationship between science and religion from the fin de siècle to the present period continues to influence healing practices in Mongolia. It explores how science and religion, rather than being congenitally antithetical to one another, are frequently co-constitutive. By following a few key historical lineages of spiritualism in their dialogue with the Mongolian cultural region, the article illustrates how ongoing exchanges between science and religion have contributed to changes in contemporary Mongolian urban religious practices. As the article illustrates, science, and/or the idea of science, has resulted in changes to lay religious epistemologies and methodologies. At the same time the prestige of science can be utilised as a means of underlining the strength of ritual efficacy, particularly within Buddhism. Yet when science or allopathic medicine fails to explain or to heal, science is utilised as a yardstick against which the transcendent power of ritual becomes evident.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Mongolian Buddhism
KW - spiritualism
KW - aura
KW - science
KW - religion
KW - socialism
U2 - 10.1080/02634937.2021.1994920
DO - 10.1080/02634937.2021.1994920
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 41
EP - 57
JO - Central Asian Survey
JF - Central Asian Survey
SN - 0263-4937
IS - 1
ER -
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