beyond-buddhism-and-animism-psychometric_stanford-mark-et-al.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	month	journal	volume	number	pages	publisher	openalexid
Beyond Buddhism and Animism: A Psychometric Test of the Structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism	Mark Stanford Jonathan Jong	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226414&type=printable	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226414	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BxZSZ4AqzXLGlJRwg6Pb1c7NqlQGq5O2/view?usp=drivesdk	burmese	form iddhi	2019	dec	PloS ONE	14	12	18	Public Library of Science	W2995527708

Anthropologists and religious scholars have long debated the relationship between doctrinal Theravada Buddhism, so-called 'animism', and other folk practices in southeast Asian societies. A variety of models of this relationship have been proposed on the basis of ethnographic evidence. We provide the first psychometric and quantitative evaluation of these competing models, using a new scale developed for this purpose, the Burmese Buddhist Religiosity Scale.

We argue that this model provides support for a two-dimensional distinction between great and little traditions, shedding light on decades-old theoretical debates. Far from being in conflict, the transnational religious tradition of the literati and the variegated religious practices of locals appear to be reflected in two [orthogonal] dimensions of religiosity.