Verwandte Artikel zu Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and...

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand (Gendering Asia) - Hardcover

Falk, Monica Lindberg

 
9788791114656: Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand (Gendering Asia)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8791114659 ISBN 13: 9788791114656
Verlag: NIAS Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people. Religion also plays an important role in establishing gender boundaries. The growth in recent decades of self-governing nunneries and the increasing interest of Thai women in a Buddhist monastic life are notable changes in the religion-gender dynamic. This anthropological study addresses religion and gender relations, analysing this through the lens of the lives, actions and role in Thai society of Buddhist nuns (mae chii). It raises questions about how the position of Thai Buddhist nuns outside the Buddhist sangha affects their religious legitimacy and describes recent moves to restore a Theravada order of female monks.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Monica Lindberg Falk is a research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. In addition she lectures in social anthropology at the universities of Lund and Goteborg. Her research interests and publications are on gender, religion and social change and she has taken a special interest in gender and socially engaged Buddhism in Thailand. She is currently carrying out an anthropological research project on gender and Buddhism's role in the recovery after the tsunami in Thailand.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
NIAS Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8791114659
ISBN 13 
9788791114656
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
298
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Buchpark GmbH
gpsr@buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780295987262: Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  029598726X ISBN 13:  9780295987262
Verlag: UNIV OF WASHINGTON PR, 2008
Softcover