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Author Smith, Sharon E

Title Cosmopolitan dharma : race, sexuality, and gender in british buddhism / by Sharon E. Smith, Sally R. Munt, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Published Leiden : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Numen book series ; 152
Studies in the history of religions ; v. 152.
Contents Thinking through the cultural politics of race, sexuality and gender in Western Buddhism -- Researching British Buddhism : epistemological and methodological reflections -- The culture of the Friends of Western Buddhist Order -- The Friends of Western Buddhist Order as context for 'self-fashioning' -- The culture of Soka Gakkai International in the UK -- The Soka Gakkai International in the UK as context for 'self-fashioning' -- Cosmopolitan Dharma : diversity and the embracing of the 'other' in Western Buddhism
Summary Within Western Buddhism, practitioners are often assumed to be white and middle-class. Based in ground-breaking empirical research, Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism explores the stories of Buddhists from minority communities, through a rich analysis of their lived experiences. Smith, Munt and Yip explore their various contestations of dominant white and heteronormative cultures in Western Buddhism. Using cosmopolitanism as the theoretical lens, Cosmopolitan Dharma argues convincingly that the Buddhist ethos of human interconnectivity needs to be further developed to truly embrace the 'Other' of different kinds (not least Western Buddhism's own internal 'Others'). Cosmopolitan Dharma , through Buddhists' own narratives, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Buddhism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Buddhists -- Great Britain
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Buddhism -- Social aspects
Buddhists
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Munt, Sally R
Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck, 1963-
ISBN 9789004232808
900423280X