Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy
| dc.contributor.advisor | Porcu, Elisabetta | |
| dc.contributor.author | Willenberg, Karen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-29T14:48:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-29T14:48:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-06-29T14:47:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Willenberg, K. (2022). <i>Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Willenberg, Karen. <i>"Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Willenberg, K. 2022. Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Willenberg, Karen AB - 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. DA - 2022 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Buddhist economy LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2022 T1 - Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy TI - Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Willenberg K. Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 2022 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36583 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Religious Studies | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Buddhist economy | |
| dc.title | Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MA |