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Cold War Monks : Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia


By EUGENE FORD (Author)
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Price : $40.00  $32.00
ISBN : 9780300218565  
Page : 392
Year of Publication : 2017    Edition : 1
Publisher : YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject : POLITICAL SCIENCE



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How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia.How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia.How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia.How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia.

This fascinating narrative provides a new look at how the Buddhist leaderships of Thailand and its neighbors became enmeshed in Cold War politics and in the U.S. government’s clandestine efforts to use a predominant religion of Southeast Asia as an instrument

Eugene Ford received a PhD in history from Yale University, winning the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United States or Europe.

Content :

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE

The Buddhist World and the United States at the Onset of the Cold War,1941-1954

TWO

Washington Formulates a Buddhist Policy,1954-1957

THREE

Thailand and the International Buddhist Arena, 1956-1962

FOUR

Reforming the Monks: The Cold War and Clerical Education in Thailand and Laos,1954-1961

FIVE

Thailand and the International Response to the 1963 Buddhist Crisis in South Vietnam

SIX

Enforcing the Code:South Vietnam's "Struggle Movement" and the Limits of Thai Buddhist Conservatism

SEVEN

Thailand's Buddhist Hierarchy Confronts Its Challengers, 1967-1975

EIGHT

The Rage of Thai Buddhist. 1975-1980

Conclusion:From Byoto to Kittivudho

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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