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“Three Trees Make a Mountain”: Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam |
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Swenson, Sara Ann (著)
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| Source |
Asian Ethnology
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| Volume | v.81 n.1/2 |
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| Date | 2022 |
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| Pages | 3 - 22 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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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: Dartmouth College, USA. |
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| Keyword | Charity; Buddhism; modernism; contramodernism; Vietnam; women |
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| Abstract | This article examines how women adapt devotional Buddhist worldviews within popular charity movements in Vietnam. Buddhist volunteerism is on the rise across Asia. In Vietnam, government officials encourage religious philanthropy among policy shifts toward increasing economic privatization and decreasing state welfare. Promoting philanthropy is one way officials prompt citizens to assume new responsibilities toward the state and one another by sharing private resources. Researchers have examined how popular charity trends in Asia compel volunteers to navigate changing understandings of moral personhood by internalizing modernist concepts of “rational good.” I complicate these studies by using Casey Collins’s theory of “Buddhist contramodernism” to show how women in Vietnam adapt devotional Pure Land Buddhism in addressing modern social concerns without adopting modernist Buddhist values. This article also expands Collins’s theory by demonstrating how grassroots charity groups suggest the need for a broader definition of contramodernism. |
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| Table of contents | Keywords 3
Gendering Buddhist contramodernism 6
Methodology and key terms 9
Context: The rise of religious humanitarianism in Asia 12
Modernization and emotional motivations for volunteering 13
Miracles of merit: Devotional Buddhism in women’s charity practices 14
Conclusion 18
Acknowledgments 19
Notes 19
References 20 |
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| ISSN | 18826865 (P) |
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| Hits | 58 |
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| Created date | 2024.03.21 |
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| Modified date | 2024.03.25 |
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