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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice : In Search of the Female Renunciant.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199986231
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddhist Nuns and Gendered PracticeDDC classification:
  • 294.3657082
LOC classification:
  • BQ6150 -- .S25 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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