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Paperback Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand Book

ISBN: 029598726X

ISBN13: 9780295987262

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

(Part of the Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies Series and Gendering Asia Series)

Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people. Religion also plays an important role in establishing gender boundaries. The growth in recent decades of self-governing nunneries and the increasing interest of Thai women in a Buddhist monastic life are notable changes in the religion/gender dynamic. This anthropological study considers religion and gender relations through the lens of the...

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