Buddhism and Cultural Studies A Profession of Faith
This 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
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Buddhism and Cultural Studies
Edwin Ng
Buddhism and Cultural Studies A Profession of Faith
Edwin Ng Deakin University Burwood, Victoria, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-54989-1 ISBN 978-1-137-54990-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54990-7
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction Refusing the Presumptive Secularism of Cultural Studies The Ethics of Cultural Studies and, Perhaps, Faith? An Enunciative Practice of a Spiritual-Scholarly Profession A Profession of Faith on the Contested Ground of ‘Spirituality’
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2 Towards a Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies Who or What Is Embarrassed by Matters of Faith? Governmentality, the Neoliberal Subject, and a Politics of Spirituality The Spirituality of White Collar Zen The Spirituality of Engaged Buddhism The Question of Meditative Experience Conclusion
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Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities Buddhist Theology and Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection
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Autoethnographical Reflections of a Postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ Convert Portraits and Legacies of Buddhist Modernism The Insight (vipassanā) Meditation Movement The Reciprocal Development of Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection and Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies Conclusion 4
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Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction Constructivist Critique and the Soteriological Claim of Unmediated Awareness Dependent Co-arising and Différance Reconsidering the Buddhist Critique of Deconstruction Unconditional Uncond
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