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Buddhism and Cultural Studies

A Profession of Faith

Edwin Ng (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54989-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic ‘Chinese’ ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings. Through an autoethnography of the author’s Buddhist-inspired pursuit of an academic profession, the book develops and professes a non-doctrinal understanding of faith that may be pertinent to ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’ alike, inviting the academic reader in particular to consider the (unacknowledged) role of faith in supporting scholarly practice. Striking a careful balance between critical analysis and self-reflexive inquiry, the book performs inall senses of the word, a profession of faith.

Edwin Ng is a cultural theorist who explores the translation of Buddhism in popular culture, the ethics and politics of contemporary mindfulness, and contemplative approaches to learning, inquiry, and activism. He has taught media and communication studies at Deakin University, Australia.

1.Introduction.- 2.Towards a Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies.- 3.Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities.- 4.Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction.- 5.The ‘Religious Question in Foucault’s Genealogies of Experience.- 6.The Care of Self and Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies.- 7.A Foucauldian analysis of Vipassana and a Buddhist art of living.- 8.Buddhist Critical Thought and an Affective Micropolitics of (Un)Becoming.- 9.A Profession of Faith.- 10.Conclusion: Yours faithfully

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	XI, 270 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Autoethnographical reflections • Buddhist critical-constructive reflection • Buddhist modernism • Buddhist theology • Derrida • Engaged Buddhism • ethics of cultural studies • Foucault • meditative experience • politics of spirituality • secularism of cultural studies • Spirituality • Vipassana • White Collar Zen
ISBN-10	1-137-54989-0 / 1137549890
ISBN-13	978-1-137-54989-1 / 9781137549891
Zustand	Neuware