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2 produkter
2 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
272 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the US, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. Jiemin Bao focuses on how cultural identities - as seen through the lens of marriage - play a central role in the formation of cultural citizenship.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
337 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and racial identities. The temple, which functions as a religious, social, economic, educational, and cultural hub, has become a place for the community members to engage in spiritual and cultural practices. In Creating a Buddhist Community, Jiemin Bao shows how the Wat Thai participants practice Buddhism and rework gender relationships in the course of organizing temple space, teaching meditation, schooling children in Thai language and culture, merit making, fundraising, and celebrating festivals. Bao's detailed account of the process of creating an inclusive temple community with Thai immigrants as the majority helps to deconstruct the exoticized view of Buddhism in American culture. Creating a Buddhist Community also explores Wat Thai's identification with both the United States and Thailand and how this transnational perspective reimagines and reterritorializes what is called American Buddhism.