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Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley: Asian American History & Cultu

Autor Jiemin Bao
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 apr 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439909546
ISBN-10: 1439909547
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Asian American History & Cultu


Notă biografică

Jiemin Bao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora.

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments 
1 Introduction: A Community in the Making 
2 Creating a Temple Community 
3 Erecting a Chapel: Carving Out Cultural Space 
4 Monks in the Making 
5 Merit Making: Transnational Circuits 
6 Shaping and Performing Thai American Identities
7 Conclusion: Interaction, Interdependence, and Transformations 
Notes 
Glossary
References 
Index