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Cosmopolitan dharma: race, sexuality, and gender in British Buddhism

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:07 authored by Sharon E Smith, Sally Munt, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
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 a 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.

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  • Published

Publisher

Brill

Volume

152

Pages

290.0

Place of publication

Leiden, The Netherlands

ISBN

9789004232792

Series

Numen book series: studies in the history of religions

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  • Media and Film Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-21

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