Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand - Couverture rigide

Falk, Monica Lindberg

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8791114659 ISBN 13 : 9788791114656

Editeur : NIAS Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NIAS Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8791114659
• ISBN 13: 9788791114656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
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