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

Cosmopolitan Dharma, through an analysis of the diverse voices of racial, sexual and gender minority Buddhists, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality for Western Buddhism.

About the author

Sharon E. Smith, Ph.D. (2008), Goldsmith's College, London, was Research Fellow on the Queer Spiritual Spaces project. Her articles have appeared in edited volumes, and journals such as Theology & Sexuality, and Fieldwork in Religion. She passed away in 2011.

Sally R Munt, DPhil. (1991), Sussex University, is Professor and Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. She has published widely on cultures of otherness and social justice, and is the author of Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Ashgate 2007).

Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Ph.D. (1995), University of Surrey, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and journal articles on religion and sexuality, including Religious & Sexual Identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults (Ashgate, 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Sally Munt, Sharon Smith, Andrew Yip
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2016
• EAN: 9789004232792
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23279-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Weight: 608 g
• Series: Numen Book
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories