Juliane Schober (Ph.D., Anthropology, Illinois) is Professor of Religious Studies and an anthropologist of religion who works on Theravada Buddhist practice in Southeast Asia, especially Burma/Myanmar. Her current research focuses on regional exchange networks and the role sacred icons play within them. Her thematic interests include material culture, ritual, modernity, postcolonial theory, sacred biography, sacred space, and religion and politics. Her publications can be accessed at http://asu.academia.edu/JulianeSchober

Selected Publications:

Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar (University of Hawai’i, 2011) 

The Burma Reader, co-edited with Jason Carbin (Duke, forthcoming) 

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual and Art (Routledge, 2008), co-edited with Stephen Berkwitz and Claudia Brown (Routledge, 2008).

Genealogies in the Study of Religion in Burma, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, special issue on “Communities of Interpretation in the Study of Burma,”  39(2), pp. 255-267, June 2008.

Educating the 'Other': Buddhism and Colonial Knowledge in Burma, in Buddhism, Power and Political Order, Ian Harris (ed.), Routledge Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism Series, 2007: 52-70.

Acharn Mun (1870-1949); Aung San Suu Kyi (b.19, June, 45); Bodies of the Buddha; Buddhadasa (1926-1993) Disciples of the Budda; Famous Buddhist and Ideal Types; Mahasi Sayadaw (1904-1982); The Life of Siddhartha Gautama; U Nu (1907-1995); in Encyclopedia of Buddhism,  Damien Keown and Charles Prebish, (eds.) London, New York: Routledge. 2007 

Buddhism, Violence and the State in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka, Disrupting Violence: Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia,  L. Cady and S. Simon, eds., Oxon: Routledge, 2006: 51-69.

Buddhism and Modernity im Myanmar, in Buddhism in World Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives,  ABC-Clio, S. Berkwitz, editor, 2006: 73-100.

“Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post-Colonial State in Burma” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (M. Skidmore, ed., Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2005: 113-133). 

Burmese Spirit Lords and their Mediums, Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Mariko Walters (ed.), ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Mapping the Sacred in Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia, Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes: Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia, Ronald Bull (ed.), Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, Arizona State University. Pp.1-29, 2004. 

Sacred Biography, in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Robert Buswell (editor), MacMillan, pp.45-47, 2003.

Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, Editor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997; reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.

"Venerating the Buddha's Remains in Burma: From Solitary Practice to the Cultural Hegemony of Communities,” The Journal of Burma Studies, 2001, vol. 6, pp. 111-140.

Paying Homage to the Buddha's Tooth Relic: A Modern Burmese State Ritual. In Frank E. Reynolds and Jason Carbine, editors, A Living Buddhism. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000.

"Buddhist Just Rule and Burmese National Culture: State Patronage of the Chinese Tooth Relic in Myanmar." In History of Religions, February 1997, 36:3, pp. 218-243.

In the Presence of the Buddha: Ritual Veneration of the Burmese Mahamuni Image. In Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, edited by Juliane Schober. Hawaii University Press.

Anthropology of Religion; Material Culture; Modernity, Politics and Religion; Colonial Studies; Conflict and Civil Society; Buddhist Education; Sacred Biography; 

Theravada Buddhism; Burma/ Myanmar; Southeast Asia; Buddhism in the West