Monks, Money, and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism
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Monks, Money, and Morality : The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism. / Brumann, Christoph (Editor); Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle (Editor); Switek, Beata (Editor).
Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2021.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Monks, Money, and Morality
T2 - The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism
A2 - Brumann, Christoph
A2 - Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle
A2 - Switek, Beata
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks, temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral, economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an often-romanticized religion.
AB - Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks, temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral, economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an often-romanticized religion.
UR - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/monks-money-and-morality-9781350213753/
UR - https://www.eth.mpg.de/5987674/book_334
M3 - Anthology
SN - 9781350213753
BT - Monks, Money, and Morality
PB - Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ER -
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