Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice : In Search of the Female Renunciant.
Salgado, Nirmala S.
Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice : In Search of the Female Renunciant. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (334 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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.
9780199986231
Buddhist nuns.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women.
Women in Buddhism.
Electronic books.
BQ6150 -- .S25 2013eb
294.3657082
Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice : In Search of the Female Renunciant. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (334 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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.
9780199986231
Buddhist nuns.
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women.
Women in Buddhism.
Electronic books.
BQ6150 -- .S25 2013eb
294.3657082