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Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy
Buddhist monastic institutions have endured for centuries, supported by donations from the lay community. This economic system has been driven by the religious concept of merit, a concept which is regarded as producing adverse economic effects for nuns. However, scholars have begun to identify the a...
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| description | Buddhist monastic institutions have endured for centuries, supported by donations from the lay community. This economic system has been driven by the religious concept of merit, a concept which is regarded as producing adverse economic effects for nuns. However, scholars have begun to identify the absence of belief in merit in Buddhist organisations operating outside Asia and to consider the implications of this post-merit Buddhism for the funding of monastic institutions. The purpose of this paper is to consider the position of nuns in a Buddhist economy that operates without reference to merit and to demonstrate that the economic effects of gender in this model of the Buddhist economy are not a given, but the product of a negotiated attribution of value involving both the lay and monastic community. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/36583 Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy Willenberg, Karen Porcu, Elisabetta Buddhist economy Buddhist monastic institutions have endured for centuries, supported by donations from the lay community. This economic system has been driven by the religious concept of merit, a concept which is regarded as producing adverse economic effects for nuns. However, scholars have begun to identify the absence of belief in merit in Buddhist organisations operating outside Asia and to consider the implications of this post-merit Buddhism for the funding of monastic institutions. The purpose of this paper is to consider the position of nuns in a Buddhist economy that operates without reference to merit and to demonstrate that the economic effects of gender in this model of the Buddhist economy are not a given, but the product of a negotiated attribution of value involving both the lay and monastic community. 2022-06-29T14:48:02Z 2022-06-29T14:48:02Z 2022 2022-06-29T14:47:29Z Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities |
| spellingShingle | Buddhist economy Willenberg, Karen Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| title_full | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| title_fullStr | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| title_short | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy |
| title_sort | giving without merit nuns in a post merit buddhist economy |
| topic | Buddhist economy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 |
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