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Buddhism and cultural studies : a profession of faith / Edwin Ng.
Author
Ng, Edwin
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
©2016
Description
xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BQ4040 .N44 2016
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Buddhism and culture
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Culture
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Study and teaching
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Summary note
"Edwin Ng explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic 'Chinese' ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings."--Adapted from back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 263) and index.
Contents
1.Introduction
2.Towards a Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies
3.Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities
4.Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction
5.The 'Religious Question in Foucault's Genealogies of Experience
6.The Care of Self and Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies
7.A Foucauldian analysis of Vipassana and a Buddhist art of living
8.Buddhist Critical Thought and an Affective Micropolitics of (Un)Becoming
9.A Profession of Faith
10.Conclusion: Yours faithfully .
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ISBN
1137549890
9781137549891
1137549904
9781137549907
LCCN
2016944217
OCLC
942380490
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