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| Explorations of Silence in the Religious Rituals of Buddhists and Quakers | ||
| 作者 | Fennell, Dana |
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| 出處題名 | Religion |
| 卷期 | v.42 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 頁次 | 549 - 574 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/ |
| 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 |
| 附註項 | Author affiliations Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology , University of Southern Mississippi , 118 College Drive, #5074, Hattiesburg , MS , 39406 , USA Author biographies Dana Fennell is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her PhD from the University of Florida. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and health. |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; religions; silence; Quakers; Mead; stillness; symbolic interaction |
| 摘要 | This paper is a participant-observation-based study of one Quaker and three Buddhist groups. Using a sociological framework, it explores silence as actively practiced in religious ritual. It demonstrates the usefulness of employing multiple continuums to analyze practices, including a speech–silence continuum, a body movement–body stillness continuum, and a thinking–not thinking continuum. Even when silence is seen as active, it may be construed as functioning to turn people inward and away from each other. Instead, this paper demonstrates how silence for these groups is not necessarily socially isolating. For instance, participants not only learned, practiced, and reflected on silence together, but drew connections between the practice of silence and changes in everyday social interactions, including bringing compassion into these. Some persons referred to realizing a sense of interconnectedness in the silence akin to a Meadian fusion. |
| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 217 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.05.22 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.16 |
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