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Self-Representation and Cultural Expectations: Yogi Chen and Religious Practices of Life-Writing |
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Payne, Richard K. (著)
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| Source |
Entangled Religions
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| Volume | v.3 |
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| Date | 2016 |
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| Pages | 33 - 82 |
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| Publisher | Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe |
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| Location | Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany [波鴻, 北萊茵-威斯特伐利亞, 德國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, USA. |
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| Keyword | religious life-writing; Buddhism; Pietism; Yogi Chen; Billy Graham; Dalai Lama; autobiography |
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| Abstract | Explores the differences in self-representation as found in the autobiographical writings of Yogi Chen, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama. While the latter two are widely recognized in American popular religious culture, the former is virtually invisible outside the immigrant Chinese American community. This invisibility is consistent with fact that the religious praxes of immigrant communities remain largely under-studied.
However, one additional factor appears to be the mismatch between the expectations of the dominant religious culture and the immigrant culture in terms of the ways in which religious leaders represent themselves. Both Billy Graham and the Dalai Lama present themselves in very humble terms, consistent with the expectations of the Pietist background to American popular religion. Yogi Chen on the contrary tends toward a self-aggrandizing style, which although consistent with the competitive nature of premodern Tibetan religious culture is not congruent with the expectations of American popular religion. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 34
Key Words 34
Introduction 34
Religious life-writing 36
What it is 37
What it does 43
What we can learn from it 48
Awakening, Instrumentality, Visions 49
Awakening Narrative: Śākyamuni Buddha as Exemplar 49
Centrality of Karma: causal and contracausal understandings of the relation of practice and birth 53
Visionary Record 55
When religious life-writings meet, or Whatever happened to yogi chen? 57
Visions and Miracles 58
The One Autobiography of Billy Graham 61
Redemptive Narratives 64
Vocation 65
Conversion 65
Redemption 66
Piety 66
The Three Autobiographies of the Dalai Lama 67
Competing tropes: Impermanence and Piety, transcendence and Immanence 71
Conclusion 73
References 74 |
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| ISSN | 23636696 (P) |
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| DOI | 10.13154/er.v3.2016.33-82 |
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| Hits | 55 |
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| Created date | 2024.02.07 |
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| Modified date | 2024.02.16 |
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