Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8201196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 263-266 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfx039 |
| OpenAlex | W2886156241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
What is Buddhism, so that a scholar may know it, and who are scholars, so that they may know Buddhism? Buddhism has long been characterized as a clergy-centered, inward-looking, world-denying tradition, and scholars have tended to view its practices through a textual, even a philological perspective. In Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks, Professor of Religious Studies Justin McDaniel begins the task of expanding these assumptions by exploring Buddhist world-affirming leisure activities that occur in public spaces. By “public” McDaniel does not indicate that Habermasian civic sphere of citizens rationally debating politics. Instead, he refers to Buddhist locations that are nonmonastic and nonsectarian. “These are places that are used not merely on occasion for non-monastic, non-ritual, non-liturgical, and non-educational activity, but are designated as such” (13). By leisure McDaniel indicates neither the Veblenian concept of the leisure class, nor games or contests, but rather the nonobligated. “These places are not necessary. Visiting them does not directly improve one’s chances at a job promotion, earn credit toward a degree, contribute knowledge needed to pass monastic or secular examinations, provide a place for life-cycle ritual like tonsure, ordination, marriage, cremation, or even provide karmic merit to improve one’s present or future life” (16)
Aesthetics · Amusement · Archaeology · Buddhism · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Sociology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |