Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism

by Andrew Yip, Sally R. Munt, Sharon E. Smith, et al.

Within Western Buddhism, practitioners are often assumed to be white and middle-class. Based in ground-breaking empirical research, Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism explores the stories of Buddhists from minority communities, through a rich analysis of their lived experiences. Smith, Munt and Yip explore their various contestations of dominant white and heteronormative cultures in Western Buddhism. Using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004232796
• ISBN13: 9789004232792
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 308 Pages