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Book Review: Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom by Amy Langenberg |
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| 著者 |
Gutschow, Kim (評論)
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| 掲載誌 |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| 巻号 | v.87 n.4 |
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| 出版年月日 | 2019.12 |
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| ページ | 1253 - 1256 |
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| 出版者 | Oxford University Press |
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| 出版サイト |
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
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| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| 資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| 言語 | 英文=English |
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| ノート | 1. Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom. By Amy Langenberg. Routledge, 2017. 210 pages. $150.00 (cloth), $54.95 (e-book).
2. Reviewer Affiliation: Williams College, USA |
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| 抄録 | Amy Langenberg places the Garbhavakranti-sutra (GS), an early first millennium Indian text, at the center rather than margins of Buddhist discourse on suffering and gendered embodiment. Her analysis of the GS, or “Descent of the Embryo Scripture,” links the material and messy processes of birth and gestation to more abstract Buddhist concepts of suffering, dependent origination, and gendered rebirth. Langenberg convincingly shows that birth is a root metaphor for the theory of suffering, and fetal development serves as a narrative device to illustrate the inevitable unsatisfactoriness of human existence and embodiment. Langenberg’s first chapter unpacks the notion that metaphors help us conceptualize abstract concepts via the physical processes of embodiment that are always already structured by language and culture. Chapter 2 elaborate a complex Buddhist episteme linking suffering, rebirth, and gendered asceticism. This chapter builds on previous work by Susanne Mrozik, John Powers, and Reiko Ohnuma to further develop what Langenberg terms a “foundational Buddhist logic of gender,” in which the male fetus is pitted against the female maternal body (71). Building on prior scholarship that has identified ways the Jataka and Avadana literature has used the birth process to theorize social and moral identity, Langenberg explores how birth can offer an opportunity to perfect spiritual knowledge. We learn how the GS links the familial or social environment into which a fetus is born to prior merit and physical attributes developed in the womb. |
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| ISSN | 00027189 (P); 14774585 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfz073 |
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| 本の情報 | Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom. Langenberg, Amy Paris (著). Oxfordshire, UK [牛津郡, 英國]: Taylor & Francis, 2017. 224. 9781315512518. (E-Book).; 1315512513. (E-Book). |
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| ヒット数 | 16 |
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| 作成日 | 2024.04.12 |
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| 更新日期 | 2024.04.12 |
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