Gwendolyn Gillson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwendolyn Gillson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwendolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillson |
| SIGNATURE | GILLSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0051-4389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Tepid Liberation
Hōnen (1133–1212) is celebrated as the founder of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan, particularly by the Jōdoshū (Pure Land Sect). Scholar-priests continue to publish on what they see as Hōnen’s revolutionary agenda and promulgation of the correct form of Pure Land Buddhism. Their examination of Hōnen’s doctrines is wide ranging but an area that has received little attention is Hōnen’s understanding of women. This article will analyze some of the only …
Feasting with Buddhist Women
This ethnographic study shows that women’s knowledge and practices involving food in Japanese Buddhist contexts circulate as gendered currency. It emphasizes how what we term “food literacy” cultivates aesthetic and affective senses of belonging among Buddhist practitioners. We argue that this embodied knowledge helps women negotiate their experiences of Buddhism and show how these experiences articulate the complexities of their bounded and self…
Feminist ethnography in the study of religion
What does it mean to be a feminist ethnographer of religion? As a methodological, epistemological, and theoretical framework, feminist ethnography prioritizes participant observation that recognizes copresence, power, and reciprocity between the researcher and her interlocutors and is essential to the study of religion. However, the nature of religious studies as a discipline contributes to a fundamental misunderstanding about the place and impor…
Traversing the Nenbutsu
Feasting with Buddhist Women
This ethnographic study shows that women’s knowledge and practices involving food in Japanese Buddhist contexts circulate as gendered currency. It emphasizes how what we term “food literacy” cultivates aesthetic and affective senses of belonging among Buddhist practitioners. We argue that this embodied knowledge helps women negotiate their experiences of Buddhism and show how these experiences articulate the complexities of their bounded and self…
Traversing the Nenbutsu
Feasting with Buddhist Women
This ethnographic study shows that women’s knowledge and practices involving food in Japanese Buddhist contexts circulate as gendered currency. It emphasizes how what we term “food literacy” cultivates aesthetic and affective senses of belonging among Buddhist practitioners. We argue that this embodied knowledge helps women negotiate their experiences of Buddhism and show how these experiences articulate the complexities of their bounded and self…
Feminist ethnography in the study of religion
What does it mean to be a feminist ethnographer of religion? As a methodological, epistemological, and theoretical framework, feminist ethnography prioritizes participant observation that recognizes copresence, power, and reciprocity between the researcher and her interlocutors and is essential to the study of religion. However, the nature of religious studies as a discipline contributes to a fundamental misunderstanding about the place and impor…
A Tepid Liberation
Hōnen (1133–1212) is celebrated as the founder of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan, particularly by the Jōdoshū (Pure Land Sect). Scholar-priests continue to publish on what they see as Hōnen’s revolutionary agenda and promulgation of the correct form of Pure Land Buddhism. Their examination of Hōnen’s doctrines is wide ranging but an area that has received little attention is Hōnen’s understanding of women. This article will analyze some of the only …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)