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Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the NonViolence Binary |
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Soboslai, John (著)
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| Source |
Open Theology
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| Volume | v.1 n.1 |
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| Date | 2015.01 |
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| Pages | 146 - 159 |
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| Publisher | De Gruyter |
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https://www.degruyter.com/
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| Location | Warsaw, Poland [華沙, 波蘭] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | John Soboslai is an assistant professor, arriving at Montclair State in 2016. He has a degree in philosophy from Central Connecticut State University, a M.A. in religion from Columbia University, and earned his PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara under the supervision of Mark Juergensmeyer. He has published and presented in various forums, and was named Emerging Scholar of 2016 by the University of North Carolina. At MSU he teaches courses in religious violence, global religious politics and death, dying and the afterlife. |
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| Keyword | Self-Immolation; Tibetan Buddhism; Violence and Nonviolence; Power; Transgression |
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| Abstract | The paper investigates the conceptual dichotomy of violence and nonviolence in reference to the self-immolations that have been taking place in Tibet for the last several years. First using the insights of Hannah Arendt to distinguish between the categories of violent, nonviolent and peaceful, I approach the question of violence as the problem of acts that transgress prohibitions against causing harm. Using that heuristic, I examine the ways multiple ethical systems are vying for recognition regarding the selfimmolations, and how a certain Buddhist ambivalence around extreme acts of devotion complicate any easy designations of the act as ‘violent’ or ‘nonviolent’. I conclude by suggesting how any such classification inculcates us into questions of power and assertions of appropriate authority. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 146
Keywords 146
Tibetan Self-Immolations 148
The Stance of the People's Republic of China 149
Tibetan Religio-Nationalism 151
Sanctioned Violence in Tibetan Buddhism 152
Self-Immolation as Nonviolent 153
Self-Immolation as Religious Practice 155
Motivation 156
Conclusion 157
References 159 |
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| ISSN | 23006579 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1515/opth-2015-0004 |
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| Created date | 2023.09.08 |
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| Modified date | 2023.09.14 |
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