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| Imagined Laity and the Performance of Monasticism in Northern Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Chladek, Michael R. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Buddhism, Law & Society |
| 卷期 | v.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2017-18 |
| 頁次 | 157 - 190 |
| 出版者 | University at Buffalo; William S. Hein & Co., Inc. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.law.buffalo.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Buffalo, NY, US [水牛城, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | monastic-lay relations; social performance; Thailand; Theravāda |
| 摘要 | This article explores ways in which a monastic community in northern Thailand, with whom I conducted ethnographic field research between 2011 and 2014, constructed a sense of duty to their ascetic disciplines in relation to how they thought their lay supporters expected them to approach their rules. Drawing on insights from the social sciences on how group identities are created and maintained through performance, I focus particularly on lay-monastic relations to understand how monks and novices in this context construct a monastic in-group by conforming to the expectations of the lay community who support them. Rather than concentrating on how the monastic community engages the actual lay community, though, I focus on how monastics orient their behavior towards an “imagined laity,” a lay community which may not exist in reality but upon whom monastics project ideas of what they think laypeople expect out of them and how laity may react to certain behaviors. This projection of expectations onto an imagined laity, I argue, is an important mechanism by which the monastic community self-regulates its behavior and which shapes its understanding of their monastic rules. |
| 目次 | Abstract 157 Learning to Imagine Laity 160 Reconciling Textual & Social Influences on Monastic Behavior 163 The Field Site 169 Constructing Imagined Laity 171 The Importance of Imagined Laity’s Expectations 171 Novices Learning to Imagine Laity 176 Novices Practicing Imagining Laity 178 Imagining Laity as Being Familiar 181 Conclusion 184 Acknowledgments 186 Bibliography 187 |
| ISSN | 24759260 (P); 24759279 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 146 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.04.12 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.04.12 |
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