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| Social Inequalities and the Promotion of Women in Buddhism in Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Litalien, Manuel |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.25 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 569 - 606 |
| 出版者 | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
| 出版者網址 | https://history.la.psu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | University Park, PA, US |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Author affiliation: Nipissing University 2. Special Issue: Buddhism and Free Will |
| 摘要 | Studies have shown that religion can support or hinder social development (Haynes 2007; Tomalin 2013). This article makes a case in favor of how, in Thailand, the demands for greater justice and gender equality have engaged groups of women to seek higher Buddhist ordination as a means to better promote human and social development. Equal religious philanthropic contribution between men and women is presented as a component to democratic participation in the struggling political Kingdom of Thailand. The study finds that the women’s Buddhist movement in Thailand capitalizes on the limited welfare resources offered by the government, along with the current institutionalized politics of religious diversity, as defined in the Thai constitution. To present the inequalities and challenges faced by Thai Buddhist women, the function of the Thai Buddhist monastic community (saṅgha) will be portrayed as an organization promoting an “inequality regime.” The governing structural configuration of the saṅgha will be presented as reinforcing social roles divided by oppressive gender conceptions. The Buddhist institution’s inequality regime will be depicted in light of its refusal to ordain bhikkhunīs. The exclusion of Thai Buddhist nuns is situated in eight different lenses: namely, biological, ritual, scriptural, cultural, political, institutional, historical, and legal contexts. Finally, the vital sustainable core to these women is introduced as both a global and a local network of Buddhist women. This is better known as a glocalization strategy for the promotion of gender equality in Theravāda Buddhism. |
| 目次 | Introduction 571 Feminism, Development, and Religion in Thailand 576 The Thai Buddhist Saṅgha as an Inequality Regime 579 Capitalizing on Limited Welfare Resources Offered by the Government 585 Institutionalized Politics of Religious Diversity 589 Buddhist Movement and Limited Secular Welfare Resources 591 Transnational and Local Networks of Buddhist Nuns as a Sustainable Core 595 Conclusion 599 Bibliography 600 |
| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 247 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.03.01 |
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