Attracting the heart : social relations and the aesthetics of emotion in Sri Lankan monastic culture / Jeffrey Samuels.
Series: Topics in contemporary BuddhismPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 167 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780824860622
- 0824860624
- 0824833856
- 9780824833855
- 294.3/657095493 22
- BQ6160.S72 S25 2010
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index.
Print version record.
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.
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