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What is the Value of a Tibetan Prayer Wheel?
Author Brox, Trine (著)
Source Social Compass
Volumev.69 n.2
Date2022.06
Pages205 - 222
PublisherSage Publications Ltd.
Publisher Url http://www.uk.sagepub.com
LocationLondon, UK [倫敦, 英國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Keywordmarket=marché; prayer wheel=moulin à prière; religious materiality=matérialité religieuse; technology=technologie; Tibetan Buddhism=bouddhisme tibétain; value=valeur
AbstractWith Buddhism’s integration into the global market economy, the trade in Buddhist commodities is booming. I ask how the value of such goods is measured, communicated, and contested by the diverse range of actors who buy and sell them. The analytical framework draws on recent conceptual developments in the fields of religion and of technology to develop Jens Beckert’s typology of value. While Beckert draws on Durkheim’s sociology of religion to differentiate between physical and symbolic values, I take the example of a powerful Buddhist technology, the Tibetan prayer wheel, to demonstrate the entanglement of materiality and belief in the different types of value ascribed to religious goods.

Cet article étudie la valeur des biens religieux dans l’économie de marché. En prenant l’exemple d’une technologie puissante bouddhiste, le moulin à prière tibétain, je m’interroge sur la manière dont la valeur de tels biens est mesurée, communiquée et contestée par les divers acteurs qui les achètent et les vendent. Le cadre analytique
s’appuie sur de récents développements conceptuels dans les domaines de la religion et de la technologie pour développer la typologie des sources de valeur de Jens Beckert. Alors que Beckert s’appuie sur la sociologie de la religion de Durkheim pour différencier la valeur physique de la valeur symbolique, je me base sur l’exemple d’une puissante technologie bouddhiste, le moulin à prière, pour démontrer l’imbrication de la matérialité et de la croyance dans les différents types de valeur attribués aux biens religieux.
Table of contentsAbstract 205
Introduction 206
The efficacy of Tibetan prayer wheels 207
The multivalence of prayer wheels 210
Valuating prayer wheels as efficacious goods 213
Selling prayer wheels 213
Purchasing a prayer wheel 215
The value of efficacious technologies 217
Conclusion 218
Acknowledgements 219
Funding 219
ORCID iD 219
Notes 220
References 220
Author biography 222
ISSN00377686 (P); 14617404 (E)
DOI10.1177/00377686221083116
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Created date2023.07.10
Modified date2023.08.02



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