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| To Be or Not To Be: Buddhist Selves in Toronto | ||
| 作者 | Danyluk, Angie |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.4 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2003.11 |
| 頁次 | 127 - 141 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Tibetan Buddhism; Buddhist Doctrines; Buddhists; Social Reality; Religions |
| 摘要 | Buddhist identity: a Buddhist by any other name? When we talk about a ‘Buddhist’ or ‘Buddhists’ in Canada and the United States, what exactly is our referent—a label or category, an identity, or perhaps something more? Is the term ‘Buddhist’ signifying a reified object (or subject?), one that subsumes all sorts of practices, beliefs, philosophies, and preconceptions under its umbrella? Or can the term be used to signify choice, personal commitment, motivation, partiality, and perhaps even struggle? We have a great many labels and categorizations of the differences among and between Buddhists, but can we really assume that the term ‘Buddhist’ itself is unproblematic? Calling someone a Buddhist in the West, or ‘naming’ them as such, appears initially and on the surface a fairly straightforward undertaking. And yet, the very act of naming itself is a composite of assumptions and expectations. In much of the anthropological literature on initiation rituals, the act of naming has been construed as more-or-less a societal quest for order and control of the individual. Naming marks who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’. Being named is an important marker of social identity, socialness, and social belonging (inter alia, Jell-Bahlsen 1989; Jacquemet 1992; Cohen 1994). |
| 目次 | Buddhist identity: a Buddhist by any other name? 127 The setting 128 What’s in a name? 129 Making sense, making selves 133 Conclusion 139 Notes 139 References 140 |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1463994032000162956 |
| 點閱次數 | 189 |
| 建檔日期 | 2007.11.20 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.06.29 |
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