insSearch of the female renunciant
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Salgado, Nirmala S.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 8 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- boeddhisme, religieuzen, dagelijks leven, identiteit, kolonialisme, politiek, Sri Lanka
- Description
- Based on research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, this study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist 'concepts' such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground female renunciant practice? Salgado's analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday