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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice In Search of the Female Renunciant




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 11/2013





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Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns. Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nuns constitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.




Sommario

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Narration; 1 Decolonizing Female Renunciation; 2 Institutional Discourse and Everyday Practice; 3 Buddhism, Power, and Practice; Part II Identity; 4 Invisible Nuns; 5 Subjects of Renunciation; 6 Becoming Bhikkhunis, Becoming Theravada; Part III Empowerment; 7 Renunciation and ''Empowerment''; 8 Global Empowerment and the Renunciant Everyday; Notes; Works Cited; Index




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Professor of Religion, Augustana College










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ISBN:

9780199760015

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 234 x 23.5 x 156 mm Ø 438 gr
Formato: Brossura
Pagine Arabe: 336


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