Buddha as a God:

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" Buddha as a God: "
Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Edward C. Holland

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077966
Doc. No	:	LA121595
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341453‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Benjamin Grant Purzycki
	:	Edward C. Holland
Title & Author	:	Buddha as a God: [Article] : An Empirical Assessment\ Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Edward C. Holland
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	31/4-5
Page No	:	347–375
Abstract	:	For at least a century, scholars have argued about whether or not Buddha is considered a god. We treat this question empirically by conducting two ethnographic studies among residents of the Tyva Republic, one of the Buddhist republics in the Russian Federation. Using a mixed methods approach to interrogate the question, this report concludes that Buddha is, in fact, popularly represented as a punitive and moralistic supernatural agent in the republic and demographic factors co-vary with such beliefs. The paper addresses longstanding concerns and situates the results in contemporary social scientific inquiry that addresses questions of when, where, to what degree, and why he is represented as a deity.
Descriptor	:	Buddhism
Descriptor	:	cognitive anthropology
Descriptor	:	ethnographic methods
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	gods
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Tyva Republic
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341453‬