Tibetan Buddhism in the Age of Waste
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Tibetan Buddhism in the Age of Waste. / Brox, Trine.
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2024, p. 1-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Tibetan Buddhism in the Age of Waste
AU - Brox, Trine
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Taking examples from lived Tibetan Buddhism, this article explores the role of religion in the generation, sorting, and handling of waste that is produced or ends up in the religious field. Rather than assuming that waste is the negative and worthless endpoint of consumption, it introduces the concepts of “waste imaginaries” and “waste trajectories” to examine the importance of religion in the relationship between how and why things come to be defined and sorted as waste and the ways in which they are then handled and treated. By examining how Tibetan Buddhists talk about and act around different kinds of waste, both sacred and banal, the article unfolds the moral politics of waste, showing how waste trajectories are negotiated through changing and sometimes conflicting waste imaginaries.
AB - Taking examples from lived Tibetan Buddhism, this article explores the role of religion in the generation, sorting, and handling of waste that is produced or ends up in the religious field. Rather than assuming that waste is the negative and worthless endpoint of consumption, it introduces the concepts of “waste imaginaries” and “waste trajectories” to examine the importance of religion in the relationship between how and why things come to be defined and sorted as waste and the ways in which they are then handled and treated. By examining how Tibetan Buddhists talk about and act around different kinds of waste, both sacred and banal, the article unfolds the moral politics of waste, showing how waste trajectories are negotiated through changing and sometimes conflicting waste imaginaries.
U2 - 10.1093/jaarel/lfae041
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfae041
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
SN - 0002-7189
ER -
ID: 390539304