Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice (e-bog) af Salgado, Nirmala S.
Salgado, Nirmala S. (forfatter)

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice e-bog

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Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist &quote;concepts&quote; such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunc...
E-bog 352,06 DKK
Forfattere Salgado, Nirmala S. (forfatter)
Udgivet 17 september 2013
Længde 288 sider
Genrer HREP
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780199986231
Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "e;concepts"e; such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.