000760941 000__ 03048cam\a2200433Ii\4500 000760941 001__ 760941 000760941 005__ 20230306142131.0 000760941 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000760941 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000760941 008__ 160705s2016\\\\enk\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000760941 019__ $$a952973175 000760941 020__ $$a9781137549907$$q(electronic book) 000760941 020__ $$a1137549904$$q(electronic book) 000760941 020__ $$z9781137549891 000760941 020__ $$z1137549890 000760941 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)ocn953030018 000760941 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)953030018$$z(OCoLC)952973175 000760941 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dN$T$$dAZU$$dYDXCP$$dDKDLA$$dOCLCF 000760941 049__ $$aISEA 000760941 050_4 $$aBQ1597 000760941 08204 $$a294.307$$223 000760941 1001_ $$aNg, Edwin,$$d1948-$$eauthor. 000760941 24510 $$aBuddhism and cultural studies :$$ba profession of faith /$$cEdwin Ng. 000760941 264_1 $$aLondon :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2016. 000760941 300__ $$a1 online resource 000760941 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000760941 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000760941 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000760941 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000760941 5050_ $$a1.Introduction -- 2.Towards a Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies -- 3.Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities -- 4.Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction -- 5.The 'Religious Question in Foucault's Genealogies of Experience -- 6.The Care of Self and Spiritually-Engaged Cultural Studies -- 7.A Foucauldian analysis of Vipassana and a Buddhist art of living -- 8.Buddhist Critical Thought and an Affective Micropolitics of (Un)Becoming -- 9.A Profession of Faith -- 10.Conclusion: Yours faithfully . 000760941 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000760941 520__ $$aThis book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic 'Chinese' ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings. Through an autoethnography of the author's Buddhist-inspired pursuit of an academic profession, the book develops and professes a non-doctrinal understanding of faith that may be pertinent to 'believers' and 'non-believers' alike, inviting the academic reader in particular to consider the (unacknowledged) role of faith in supporting scholarly practice. Striking a careful balance between critical analysis and self-reflexive inquiry, the book performs in all senses of the word, a profession of faith. 000760941 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 12, 2016) 000760941 650_0 $$aBuddhism and culture. 000760941 77608 $$iPrint version:$$z1137549890$$z9781137549891$$w(OCoLC)942380490 000760941 852__ $$bebk 000760941 85640 $$3SpringerLink$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-54990-7$$zOnline Access$$91397441.1 000760941 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:760941$$pGLOBAL_SET 000760941 980__ $$aEBOOK 000760941 980__ $$aBIB 000760941 982__ $$aEbook 000760941 983__ $$aOnline 000760941 994__ $$a92$$bISE