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Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism
Contributor(s): Smith, Sharon (Author), Munt, Sally (Author), Yip, Andrew (Author)

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 ISBN: 9004232796     ISBN-13: 9789004232792
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $162.45  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Warfare
- Religion | Spirituality
Series: Numen Book
Physical Information: 308 pages
 
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Within Western Buddhism, practitioners are often assumed to be white and middle-class. Based in ground-breaking empirical research, Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism explores the stories of Buddhists from minority communities, through a rich analysis of their lived experiences. Smith, Munt and Yip explore their various contestations of dominant white and heteronormative cultures in Western Buddhism. Using cosmopolitanism as the theoretical lens, Cosmopolitan Dharma argues convincingly that the Buddhist ethos of human interconnectivity needs to be further developed to truly embrace the 'Other' of different kinds (not least Western Buddhism's own internal 'Others'). Cosmopolitan Dharma, through Buddhists' own narratives, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality.
 
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