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Lin, Nan Kathy.

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Religious Change as Seen Through Buddhist Environmentalism.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Religious Change as Seen Through Buddhist Environmentalism./
作者:	Lin, Nan Kathy.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	307 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03A.
標題:	Religious history. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30523632
ISBN:	9798380176705

Religious Change as Seen Through Buddhist Environmentalism.
Lin, Nan Kathy.

Religious Change as Seen Through Buddhist Environmentalism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 307 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Is Buddhist environmentalism a coherent and viable conjunction? Some scholars affirm this conjunction as an obvious extrapolation of the Buddhist doctrines of suffering and compassion. Other scholars raise objections on historical grounds, pointing out that historical Buddhists cannot be said to have held environmentalist commitments per se. This project defends the coherence of Buddhist environmentalism by offering three axes of critical-constructive response.First, this dissertation works out a theoretical account of historical religious change. It describes religious change occurring in hybrid rhythms, both fast and slow, via processes whereby people connect concepts differently to the materia of a surrounding world, as well as to social practices, habits, norms, conventions, and institutions. This theoretical account of change is worked through two historical examples, one of which is the instance of Buddhism's uptake into China from India and Central Asia between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. The theoretical apparatus is again put into play to defend 20th century Buddhist environmentalists. I argue that 20th century environmentalists give a particularly context-appropriate response to the moral concepts imbedded within 20th century industrial political economy, in their translation of paticca-samuppada as interdependence. They propose a conceptual exchange of interdependence for growth, the currently governing moral concept developed through Anglophone political-economic theory.Second, this dissertation brings in a strand of the philosophy of language in a pragmatic register, from a group of thinkers called the 'ordinary language philosophers,' to speak of the cloudy and shifting cluster of moral concepts at play in processes of religious historical change. It considers how certain key Buddhist doctrines, such as the central doctrine of paticca-samuppada as deployed in the Visuddhimagga, can be read in a pragmatic register.Third, with the help of philosophers of language and action, this dissertation gives a theoretical account of religious exemplarity. It defends a focus on exemplars in the study of religion, as contrastive with statistical-empirical or quantitatively social-scientific methods. The dissertation concludes by considering how and why the 14th Dalai Lama is an agent of historical religious change, as well as a religious exemplar, a Tibetan Buddhist exemplar, and a Buddhist environmentalist exemplar.

ISBN: 9798380176705Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religious history.
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Buddhist environmentalism

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