04216nam 2200709 a 450 991081758940332120230803021435.00-19-998623-1(CKB)2550000001111665(StDuBDS)AH25563614(SSID)ssj0000980740(PQKBManifestationID)12445956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980740(PQKBWorkID)10968884(PQKB)11610581(MiAaPQ)EBC3055545(EXLCZ)99255000000111166520130321d2013 fy| 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBuddhist nuns and gendered practice[electronic resource] /in search of the female renunciant /Nirmala S. SalgadoNew York Oxford University Press20131 online resource (320 pages) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-976001-2 1-299-80306-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Nirmala S. Salgado offers a study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground femalerenunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nunsconstitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism.Buddhist nunsBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for womenWomen in BuddhismReligionukslcBuddhist nunsBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for womenWomen in BuddhismReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCBuddhismHILCCElectronic books.lcshBuddhist nuns.Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women.Women in Buddhism.Religion.Buddhist nunsBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for womenWomen in BuddhismReligionPhilosophy & ReligionBuddhism294.3657082Salgado Nirmala S1614172StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZUkPrAHLSBOOK9910817589403321Buddhist nuns and gendered practice3943872UNINA