Cosmopolitan Dharma

Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism

Sharon Smith, Sally Munt, Andrew Yip (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-23279-2 (ISBN)

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Cosmopolitan Dharma, through an analysis of the diverse voices of racial, sexual and gender minority Buddhists, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality for Western Buddhism.

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.

Sharon E. Smith, Ph.D. (2008), Goldsmith’s College, London, was Research Fellow on the Queer Spiritual Spaces project. Her articles have appeared in edited volumes, and journals such as Theology & Sexuality, and Fieldwork in Religion. She passed away in 2011. Sally R Munt, DPhil. (1991), Sussex University, is Professor and Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. She has published widely on cultures of otherness and social justice, and is the author of Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Ashgate 2007). Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Ph.D. (1995), University of Surrey, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and journal articles on religion and sexuality, including Religious & Sexual Identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults (Ashgate, 2013).

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Numen Book Series ; 152
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-23279-6 / 9004232796
ISBN-13	978-90-04-23279-2 / 9789004232792
Zustand	Neuware