Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant by Salgado, Nirmala S.

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199760015)

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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant by Salgado, Nirmala S.

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant

$56.00
Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant by Salgado, Nirmala S.

Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant

$56.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Nirmala S. Salgado
ISBN-10: 0199760012
ISBN-13: 9780199760015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 05/01/2014
By Nirmala S. Salgado
By Nirmala S. Salgado
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Nirmala S. Salgado (MA, SOAS, University of London; PhD, Northwestern University) has published widely on Buddhist nuns. She teaches religion to undergraduates at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.

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