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Becoming a Nun, Becoming a Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns' Gender Transformation |
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Crane, Hillary Kathleen
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| Source |
Religion
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| Volume | v.37 n.2 |
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| Date | 2007.04 |
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| Pages | 117 - 132 |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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http://www.tandf.co.uk/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 心靈=Spiritual; 比丘尼=Buddhist Nun=Bhiksuni=Bhikkhuni; 佛教人物=Buddhist |
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| Abstract | This article explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women's spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender cosmology as a means of accommodating textual contradictions, without rejecting any textual statements. This strategy allows the nuns to assert that they have spiritual abilities equal to those of men, without rejecting or contradicting textual statements that they do not. Without denying that they are women, and that they are therefore threatening to men, the nuns primarily identify themselves with the male gender. Compartmentalising and contextualising gender symbols allow the nuns to see themselves both as men and as women without contradiction. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
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| Hits | 664 |
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| Created date | 2008.04.15 |
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| Modified date | 2019.12.13 |
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