Part I: Therav?da as a Historical Construct

1. Therav?da Buddhist Civilizations and their Modern Formations, Juliane Schober and Steven Collins



2. Periodizing Therav?da: Where to start?, Steven Collins



3. The Impact of the Science-Religion Bifurcation on the Landscape of Modern Therav?da Meditation, Kate Crosby



Part II: Local Cultures and Buddhist Vernaculars in Colonial Modernity



4. Buddhist Religious Culture and Processes of Modernization in Sri Lanka, John Clifford Holt



5. Buddhist Communities of Belonging in Early Twentieth Century Cambodia, Anne Hansen



6. What Therav?da Does: Thoughts on a Term from the Perspective of the Study of Post-Colonial Nepal, Christoph Emmrich



Part III: Therav?da Buddhist Practices in the Contemporary World



7. The Rhetoric of Authenticity: Modernity and ‘True Buddhism’ in Sri Lanka, Stephen C. Berkwitz



8. Portrait of the Artist as a Buddhist Man, Ashley Thompson



9. ‘Conscripts’ of Chinese Modernity? Transformations of Therav?da Buddhism in Southwest China in the Reform Era, Thomas Borchert