Buddhist Masculinities

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-21046-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine.

This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks. Buddhist Masculinities adopts the methods of religious studies, anthropology, art history, textual-historical studies, and cultural studies to explore texts, images, films, media, and embodiments of masculinity across the Buddhist world, past and present. It turns scholarly attention to normative forms of masculinity that usually go unmarked and unstudied precisely because they are “normal,” illuminating the religious and cultural processes that construct Buddhist masculinities. Engaging with contemporary issues of gender identity, intersectionality, and sexual ethics, Buddhist Masculinities ushers in a new era for the study of Buddhism and gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckelew, Kevin

Bryson, Megan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berkwitz, Stephen C.

Evans, Marcus

Keeler, Ward

Langenberg, Amy Paris

Mendelson, Rebecca

Scherer, Bee

Shelton, Joshua Brallier

Song, Geng

Vendova, Dessislava

Wongchalard, Natawan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Über Autor(innen)

Megan Bryson is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Kevin Buckelew is assistant professor of religious studies at Northwestern University.