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Sally Rowena Munt
Sally Rowena Munt (born 1960) is a feminist academic and author. She has written several books including ''Murder by the Book: Feminism and the Crime Novel''.Munt grew up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and was educated at the University of Southampton (B.A. English and Media Studies), the University of Sussex (M.A. Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, D.Phil. English Literature and Cultural Studies), the University of Brighton (M.Sc Cognitive Psychotherapy) and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (PG Dip. Psychiatry).
Having worked at several British universities including as senior lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University, Munt is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Her scholarship is concerned with gender/sexuality studies, class and cultural politics, and spatial theory. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Provided by Wikipedia
Cosmopolitan dharma : race, sexuality, and gender in British Buddhism /
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Within Western Buddhism, practitioners are often assumed to be white and middle-class. Based in ground-breaking empirical research, Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism explores the stories of Buddhists from minority communities, through a rich analysis of their lived experiences. Smith, Munt and Yip explore their various contestations of dominant white and heteronormative cultures in Western Buddhism. Using cosmopolitanism as the theoretical lens, Cosmopolitan Dharma argues convincingly that the Buddhist ethos of human interconnectivity needs to be further developed to truly embrace the 'Other' of different kinds (not least Western Buddhism's own internal 'Others'). Cosmopolitan Dharma , through Buddhists' own narratives, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality.
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1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-277) and index. :
9789004232808 :
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