Christoph (Hrsg.) Brumann

Monks, Money, and Morality

The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism

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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 w… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia (Hrsg.) / Switek, Beata (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-350-21377-7
EAN: 9781350213777
Produktnummer: 35899840
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'761 KB
Abbildungen: 8 bw illus

Über den Autor

Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Beata Switek is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.