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Alicia M TurnerDepartment of HumanitiesAssistant Professor Office: 241 Vanier College Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 66979 Email: turnera@yorku.ca |
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Professor Alicia Turner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities specializing in the study of Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar and the intersections of religion, colonialism and nationalism. Her work on Buddhist movements from 1890 to 1920 studies issues of education, respect and moral reform. Her current research investigates working-class European Buddhist monks.
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Research Interests
Religion , Asian/Pacific Studies , Buddhism, Religions of Southeast Asia, Religion and Colonialism/Empire, Religion and Nationalism, Burmese History, Gender and Religion, European Buddhist Converts in Asia, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
All Publications
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“Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion in Colonial Burma” in Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair eds. Secularism and Religion Making, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 226-42.
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“The Bible, The Bottle And The Knife: Religion As a Mode Of Resisting Colonialism For U Dhammaloka” Contemporary Buddhism, 14, no. 1 (May 2013).
with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking, “A Buddhist crossroads: pioneer European Buddhists and globalizing Asian networks 1860–1960” Contemporary Buddhism 14, no. 1 (May 2013).
“Narratives of Nation, Questions of Community: Examining Burmese Sources without the Lens of Nation” The Journal of Burma Studies, 15, no. 2 (December 2011) 263-82.
“The Irish Pongyi in Colonial Burma: The Confrontations and Challenges of U Dhammaloka,” Contemporary Buddhism, 11, no. 2 (2010) 149-71.
with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking, “Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics,” Contemporary Buddhism, 11, no. 2 (2010) 125-47.
'Peace, Scholarship and Disciplinary Limits: Postcolonial Potential and Problems of the Study of Religion.' Religion 38, no. 2 (June 2008).
Approach To Teaching
2013-2014
HUMA 1855 9.0 Buddhism and Asian Cultures
GS/HUMA 6228 3.0A Religion, Networks and Underground Alliances at the Turn of the 20th Century: Europe and South and Southeast Asia
Professor Alicia Turner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities specializing in the study of Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar and the intersections of religion, colonialism and nationalism. Her work on Buddhist movements from 1890 to 1920 studies issues of education, respect and moral reform. Her current research investigates working-class European Buddhist monks.
Professor Alicia Turner specializes in the study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia with an emphasis on the period of British colonialism in Burma/Myanmar. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion, colonialism and nationalism. Seeking to understanding the cultural aspects of British colonialism and how it transformed local ideas and categories, she investigates the key role religion played in the colonial encounter, both as an ordering category for colonial rule and as a mode of response. Her work on Buddhist lay movements in Burma from 1890 to 1920, studies issues of education, the performance of respect and campaigns for moral reform.
Her current projects also include a collaborative project on Europeans Buddhist monks at the turn of the twentieth century and the study of Buddhist networks from the margins in colonial Southeast Asia.
Area of Specialization
Religious StudiesDegrees
PhD , University of Chicago, Divinity School
MA in History of Religions , University of Chicago
BA in Reigion in Women’s Studies , Kalamazoo College
Professional Leadership
Editor, The Journal of Burma Studies, Center for Burma Studies/National University of Singapore Press, 2007- present
Community Contributions
Executive Committee, Inya Institute: A Myanmar/Burma Research and Heritage Initiative, 2011- present Board of Advisors, Thi Saq Myin Nhàn Journal of Burmese Scholarship, 2011-present
Research Interests:
Religion , Asian/Pacific Studies , Buddhism, Religions of Southeast Asia, Religion and Colonialism/Empire, Religion and Nationalism, Burmese History, Gender and Religion, European Buddhist Converts in Asia, Theory and Method in the Study of ReligionAll Publications
| Book Chapters |
“Religion Making and Its Failures: Turning Monasteries into Schools and Buddhism into a Religion in Colonial Burma” in Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair eds. Secularism and Religion Making, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 226-42.
| Journal Articles |
“The Bible, The Bottle And The Knife: Religion As a Mode Of Resisting Colonialism For U Dhammaloka” Contemporary Buddhism, 14, no. 1 (May 2013).
with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking, “A Buddhist crossroads: pioneer European Buddhists and globalizing Asian networks 1860–1960” Contemporary Buddhism 14, no. 1 (May 2013).
“Narratives of Nation, Questions of Community: Examining Burmese Sources without the Lens of Nation” The Journal of Burma Studies, 15, no. 2 (December 2011) 263-82.
“The Irish Pongyi in Colonial Burma: The Confrontations and Challenges of U Dhammaloka,” Contemporary Buddhism, 11, no. 2 (2010) 149-71.
with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking, “Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics,” Contemporary Buddhism, 11, no. 2 (2010) 125-47.
'Peace, Scholarship and Disciplinary Limits: Postcolonial Potential and Problems of the Study of Religion.' Religion 38, no. 2 (June 2008).
Teaching:
Approach To Teaching
2013-2014
HUMA 1855 9.0 Buddhism and Asian Cultures
GS/HUMA 6228 3.0A Religion, Networks and Underground Alliances at the Turn of the 20th Century: Europe and South and Southeast Asia
