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Gendered Charisma in the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Movement |
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Huang, C. Julia (著)
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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| Volume | v.12 n.2 |
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| Date | 2008.11 |
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| Pages | 29 - 47 |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
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http://journals.ucpress.edu
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| Location | Oakland, CA, US [奧克蘭, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation of Taiwan is a lay Buddhist movement under monastic leadership that has a mission of relieving all living beings from suffering. The founder and leader is the Venerable (or the Dharma Master) Cheng Yen (Zhengyan fashi). Cheng Yen is an ordained nun and, at the same time, commands considerable personal appeal. While Tzu Chi's current membership of several million does include a significant number of men, the majority of followers, especially the core members, continue to be women. What do Taiwanese women see in Cheng Yen and in Tzu Chi? Drawing from ethnography in southern Taiwan and the Tzu Chi literatures on Cheng Yen, this paper attempts to show a pattern of normalizing female charisma—in the sense that female followers struggle for a breakthrough from the cultural constraints of their female gender roles by means of, and by virtue of, the Tzu Chi mission. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 29
INTRODUCTION 29
SETTING 33
A NUN'S TALE: THE LEADER'S LESSON 34
ANALYSIS OF THE LEADER'S LESSON 35
HER FOLLOWERS’ TALES 37
Jingheng 37
Mama Jiang 38
Ajing 39
Analysis of the Followers' Accounts 41
CONCLUDING REMARKS 41
ENDNOTES 43 |
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| ISSN | 10926690 (P); 15418480 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2008.12.2.29 |
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| Created date | 2023.10.20 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.20 |
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