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The Precarious Spaces between Us: The Exchange of Food and Merit in Thailand's Affective Moral Economy during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Cassaniti, Julia (著)
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| Source |
Journal of Religious Ethics
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| Volume | v.51 n.4 |
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| Date | 2023.12 |
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| Pages | 737 - 760 |
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| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
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http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 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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| Note | Author Affiliation: Washington State University, USA. |
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| Keyword | morality; emotion; affect; monastic practice; COVID-19; merit; Buddhism; Thailand |
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| Abstract | In the middle of 2020, Buddhism in Thailand looked quite different than it had just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Monasteries had closed their doors to the public, and monastic ordinations ceased. The institution of Thai Buddhism stayed relevant, however, largely by promoting a quite unusual practice. In addition to the typical religious activity of lay followers offering food to monks, and receiving merit from the monks in return, the path that food traveled during the pandemic also turned the other way around. In a curious series of events, monks at monasteries throughout the country began to hand out food to lay Buddhist followers. In a religious landscape with a very codified system of exchange, this was spiritually precarious: if monks give out food, where does the merit lie, and what are the karmic results? To answer this, I examine attitudes about monks’ activities, drawing on interviews conducted in Chiang Mai in 2021, and relationships to textual accounts of nutrients and healing across Buddhist history. Rather than signifying a break from spiritual relationships, I argue that this a-typical movement during the pandemic helps to highlight the continuing importance of monastic hope within interpersonal affective economies of Thai Buddhist practice. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 737
1 Merit Transfer in Monastic Donations 738
1.1 Unusual movements 740
2 Ethnographic Encounters: Buddhist Contributions to Pandemic Mitigation 741
2.1 Physical nutrients 743
2.2 Precarious expectations 744
2.3 Spiritual nutrients 747
3 Historical Buddhist Contributions to Well-Being 750
4 Interpersonal Precarity and the Transfer of Hope in the Study of Buddhist Moral Emotion 754
5 Conclusion 755
REFERENCES 756 |
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| ISSN | 03849694 (P); 14679795 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12462 |
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| Hits | 32 |
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| Created date | 2024.04.16 |
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| Modified date | 2024.04.18 |
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