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Making Fields of Merit
Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand
Langbeschreibung
Presents a unique ethnography of the Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand, and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction. Buddhist female ascetics in Thai society2. Gender orders and gendering renunciation - past and present3. Themes of going forth4. Transcending the lay realm5. Mai chii communities and the making of a mai chii6. Gender and the fields of merit7. A religious field in transition8. Mai chiis' quest for education9. Struggles for legal recognition10. Summary and conclusionsGlossaryBibliographyIndex
Monica Lindberg Falk is a research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Her work focuses on gender, religion, and social change in Thailand.
ISBN-13:
9780295987262
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2008
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Monica Lindberg Falk
Gewicht:
440 g
Format:
227x160x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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