Cosmopolitan dharma : race, sexuality, and gender in British Buddhism /

Cosmopolitan dharma : race, sexuality, and gender in British Buddhism /

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...

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Main Author: Smith, Sharon E., 1962-2011.

Other Authors: Munt, Sally., Yip, Andrew K. T., 1963-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Numen Book Series 152.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Buddhism > Social aspects > Great Buddhism.
Sex > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Sex role > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Buddhism > Social aspects.
Great Britain.

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Call Number: BQ4570.S6 S62 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 1 Thinking Through the Cultural Politics of Race, Sexuality and Gender in Western Buddhism /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 2 Researching British Buddhism: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 3 The Culture of the Friends of Western Buddhist Order /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 4 The Friends of Western Buddhist Order as Context for 'Self-Fashioning' /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 5 The Culture of Sōka Gakkai International in the uk /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 6 The Sōka Gakkai International in the uk as Context for 'Self-Fashioning' /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • 7 Cosmopolitan Dharma: Diversity and the Embracing of the 'Other' in Western Buddhism /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • Glossary of Terms /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • Bibliography /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
  • Index /
  • Sharon E. Smith , Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip.