Creating a Buddhist Community : A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley /
"The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and racial identities. The temple, which functions as a religious, social, economic, educational, and cultural hub, has become a place for the communi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a community in the making
- Creating a temple community
- Erecting a chapel: carving out cultural space
- Monks in the making
- Merit making: transnational circuits
- Shaping and performing Thai American identities
- Conclusion: interaction, interdependence and transformations.