Buddhist nuns and gendered practice : in search of the female renunciant
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women Buddhist nuns Women in Buddhism buddhalaisuus buddhism feminism feminismi kvinnor naiset nunnat nunnor e-böcker
Oxford University Press
2014
EISBN 9780199345120
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Buddhist nuns and gendered practice.
Part I: Narration. Decolonizing female renunciation.
Institutional discourse and everyday practice.
Buddhism, power, and practice.
Part II: Identity. Invisible nuns.
Subjects of renunciation.
Becoming Bhikkhunis, becoming Theravada.
Part III: Empowerment. Renunciation and "empowerment".
Global empowerment and the renunciant everyday.
"Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.".
Publisher website.
Introduction: Buddhist nuns and gendered practice.
Part I: Narration. Decolonizing female renunciation.
Institutional discourse and everyday practice.
Buddhism, power, and practice.
Part II: Identity. Invisible nuns.
Subjects of renunciation.
Becoming Bhikkhunis, becoming Theravada.
Part III: Empowerment. Renunciation and "empowerment".
Global empowerment and the renunciant everyday.
"Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist "concepts" such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.".
Publisher website.
