Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture

Throughout, Samuels makes the case for the need to account for emotions in making intelligible the behavior of religious participants and practitioners.Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well as an examination of written and visual sources, Attracting the Heart con...

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1. Verfasser: Samuels, Jeffrey (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2010]
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Zusammenfassung:Throughout, Samuels makes the case for the need to account for emotions in making intelligible the behavior of religious participants and practitioners.Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well as an examination of written and visual sources, Attracting the Heart conveys the manner in which Buddhists describe their own histories, experiences, and encounters as they relate to the formation and continuation of Buddhist monastic culture in contemporary Sri Lanka. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion, Buddhist studies, anthropology, and South and Southeast Asian studies
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ISBN:9780824860622

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