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…mehr
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.
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.
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Introduction: Balancing Sangha Economies Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Christoph Brumann and Beata Switek Part I: Reciprocity Money and Trust 1. Economic Agency and the Spirit of Donation: The Commercialization of Buddhist Services in Japan Beata Switek (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 2. Merit "Corruption " and Economy in the Contemporary Thai Sangha Thomas Borchert (University of Vermont USA) 3. Ritual Virtuosity Large-Scale Priest-Patron Networks and the Ethics of Remunerated Ritual Services in Northeast Tibet Nicolas Sihlé (Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes CNRS France) 4. 'Bad' Monks and Unworthy Donors: Money (Mis)Trust and the Disruption of Sangha-Laity Relations in Shangri-La Hannah Rosa Klepeis (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle Germany) Part II: Beyond Reciprocity 5. Donations Inversed: Material Flows from Sangha to Laity in Post-Soviet Buryatia Kristina Jonutyte (University of Vilnius Lithuania) 6. Exorcising Mauss' Ghost in the Western Himalayas: Buddhist Giving as Collective Work Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen UK) Part III: Managing Temples and Monasteries 7. Monks and the Morality of Exchange: Reflections on a Village Temple Case in Southwest China Roger Casas (Austrian Academy of Sciences Austria) 8. Wealthy Mendicants: The Balancing Act of Sri Lankan Forest Monks Prabhath Sirisena (University of Colombo Sri Lanka) 9. Monastic Business Expansion in Post-Mao Tibet: Risk Trust and Perception Jane Caple (University of Copenhagen Denmark) Part IV: Capitalism Decline and Rebirth 10. Regeneration and the Age of Decline: Purification and Rebirth in Mongolian Buddhist Economies Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 11. Saintly Entrepreneurialism and Political Aspirations of Theravadin Saints in Mainland Southeast Asia Alexander Horstmann (University of Tallinn Estonia) Bibliography Index
Introduction: Balancing Sangha Economies Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Christoph Brumann and Beata Switek Part I: Reciprocity Money and Trust 1. Economic Agency and the Spirit of Donation: The Commercialization of Buddhist Services in Japan Beata Switek (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 2. Merit "Corruption " and Economy in the Contemporary Thai Sangha Thomas Borchert (University of Vermont USA) 3. Ritual Virtuosity Large-Scale Priest-Patron Networks and the Ethics of Remunerated Ritual Services in Northeast Tibet Nicolas Sihlé (Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes CNRS France) 4. 'Bad' Monks and Unworthy Donors: Money (Mis)Trust and the Disruption of Sangha-Laity Relations in Shangri-La Hannah Rosa Klepeis (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle Germany) Part II: Beyond Reciprocity 5. Donations Inversed: Material Flows from Sangha to Laity in Post-Soviet Buryatia Kristina Jonutyte (University of Vilnius Lithuania) 6. Exorcising Mauss' Ghost in the Western Himalayas: Buddhist Giving as Collective Work Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen UK) Part III: Managing Temples and Monasteries 7. Monks and the Morality of Exchange: Reflections on a Village Temple Case in Southwest China Roger Casas (Austrian Academy of Sciences Austria) 8. Wealthy Mendicants: The Balancing Act of Sri Lankan Forest Monks Prabhath Sirisena (University of Colombo Sri Lanka) 9. Monastic Business Expansion in Post-Mao Tibet: Risk Trust and Perception Jane Caple (University of Copenhagen Denmark) Part IV: Capitalism Decline and Rebirth 10. Regeneration and the Age of Decline: Purification and Rebirth in Mongolian Buddhist Economies Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (University of Copenhagen Denmark) 11. Saintly Entrepreneurialism and Political Aspirations of Theravadin Saints in Mainland Southeast Asia Alexander Horstmann (University of Tallinn Estonia) Bibliography Index
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