Nicola Delia
Broschiertes Buch

Mediating between Purity and Defilement

Shifting Images of Gender and Power in a Thai Buddhist Monastery for Women

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This book investigates shifting gender dynamics in a Buddhist monastery for women in Northern Thailand. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a community of female monastics in the province of Chiang Mai, the study explores women's agency in recently establishing, with success, the region's first known order of fully ordained Buddhist nuns (bhikkhuni). Central to the investigation are tensions arising from novel images of women's bodies clothed in saffron robes that have historically been associated with male power and prestige. The study asks how local veneration of charismatic nuns is reconci...