Attracting the heart :
Samuels, Jeffrey, 1965-
Attracting the heart : social relations and the aesthetics of emotion in Sri Lankan monastic culture / Jeffrey Samuels. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xxx, 167 pages) - Topics in contemporary Buddhism. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index.
Introduction: Buddhism and social relations in contemporary Sri Lanka -- Narada Thero: affective bonds and the making of a social service Monk -- Aesthetics of emotions and affective bonds: monastic recruitment in two Sri Lankan villages -- Aesthetic-affective social networks and monastic recruitment -- Learning to be novices: monastic education and the construction of vocation -- Temple building as social service: family, community, and emotion -- Conclusion: social relations and the aesthetics of emotion.
An ethnographic study done in Sri Lanka that examines how emtion comes into play in the commitments of laypeople and monastics to each other and to Buddhism.
9780824860622 0824860624 0824833856 9780824833855
22573/ctt62p0n6 JSTOR
Emotions--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhist monks--Social life and customs.--Sri Lanka
Buddhist sanghas--Social aspects--Sri Lanka.
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)--Sri Lanka.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Monasticism.
Electronic books.
BQ6160.S72 / S25 2010
294.3/657095493
Attracting the heart : social relations and the aesthetics of emotion in Sri Lankan monastic culture / Jeffrey Samuels. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xxx, 167 pages) - Topics in contemporary Buddhism. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index.
Introduction: Buddhism and social relations in contemporary Sri Lanka -- Narada Thero: affective bonds and the making of a social service Monk -- Aesthetics of emotions and affective bonds: monastic recruitment in two Sri Lankan villages -- Aesthetic-affective social networks and monastic recruitment -- Learning to be novices: monastic education and the construction of vocation -- Temple building as social service: family, community, and emotion -- Conclusion: social relations and the aesthetics of emotion.
An ethnographic study done in Sri Lanka that examines how emtion comes into play in the commitments of laypeople and monastics to each other and to Buddhism.
9780824860622 0824860624 0824833856 9780824833855
22573/ctt62p0n6 JSTOR
Emotions--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhist monks--Social life and customs.--Sri Lanka
Buddhist sanghas--Social aspects--Sri Lanka.
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)--Sri Lanka.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Monasticism.
Electronic books.
BQ6160.S72 / S25 2010
294.3/657095493
