Book: Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Femal Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand( Series - Critical Dialogues In Southeast Asian Studies ) Presents a unique ethnography of the Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand, and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society.
Details of Book: Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Femal Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand( Series - Critical Dialogues In Southeast Asian Studies ) Book: Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Femal Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand( Series - Critical Dialogues In Southeast Asian Studies )
Author: Monica Lindberg Falk
ISBN: 029598726X
ISBN-13: 9780295987262
, 978-0295987262
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2008/03/31
Publisher: University Of Washington Press
Number of Pages: 283
Language: English