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ATTRACTING THE HEART
SOCIAL RELATIONS AND THE AESTHETICS OF EMOTION IN SRI LANKAN MONASTIC CULTURE |
| By: |
Jeffrey Samuels |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£37.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0824833856 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780824833855 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 July, 2010 |
| Series: |
Topics in Contemporary Buddhism |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Focusing on 'multimoment' histories, this title highlights specific junctures in which ideas about recruitment, vocation, patronage, and institution-building are dynamically negotiated and refined. This title uses the voices of informants to reveal the delicately negotiated character of laymonastic relations and temple management. |
| Synopsis: |
An idealized view of the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk might be described according to the doctrinal demand for emotional detachment and, ultimately, the cessation of all desire. Yet monks are also enjoined to practice compassion, a powerful emotion and equally lofty ideal, and live with every other human feeling - love, hate, jealousy, ambition - as they relate to other monks and the lay community. In this important ethnography of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuels takes an unprecedented look at how emotion determines and influences the commitments that laypeople and monastics make to each other and to the Buddhist religion in general. By focusing on 'multimoment' histories, Samuels highlights specific junctures in which ideas about recruitment, vocation, patronage, and institution-building are dynamically negotiated and refined. Positing a nexus between aesthetics and affect, he illustrates not only how aesthetic responses trigger certain emotions, but also how personal and shared emotions, at the local level, shape notions of beauty. Samuels uses the voices of informants to reveal the delicately negotiated character of laymonastic relations and temple management.In the fields of religion and Buddhist studies there has been a growing recognition of the need to examine affective dimensions of religion. His work breaks new ground in that it answers questions about Buddhist emotions and the constitutive roles they play in social life and religious practice through a close, poignant look at small-scale temple and social networks. Throughout, Samuels makes the case for the need to account for emotions in making the behavior of religious participants and practitioners intelligible. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork that includes numerous interviews as well as an examination of written and visual sources, "Attracting the Heart" conveys the manner in which Buddhists describe their own histories, experiences, and encounters as they relate to the formation and continuation of Buddhist monastic culture in contemporary Sri Lanka. |
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US |
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University of Hawai'i Press |
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