Drifting through Samsara : tacit conversion and disengagement in Goenka's Vipassana movement / Masoumeh Rahmani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahmani, Masoumeh, author.

Series:

AAR academy series.

Oxford scholarship online.

AAR academy series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vipaśyanā (Buddhism).

Conversion--Buddhism.

Conversion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In 'Drifting Through Samsara', Masoumeh Rahmani provides a fieldwork-based study of Goenka's Vipassana meditation movement in New Zealand. This group is distinguished by its refusal to identify as Buddhist and by a rich rhetorical repertoire for repackaging Theravada Buddhist teachings in pseudo-scientific and secular language. Drawing from qualitative research, the book examines the way the movement's discourse shapes unique processes and narratives of conversion and disengagement.

Contents:

Introduction

Conversion Career

Tacit Conversion

Pragmatic Leaving

Vipassana Disaffiliation Narratives

Disaffiliation Trajectories

Deconversion: Breathing New Self into Not-Self

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Vipassana Ten-day Course Timetable

Appendix 2: Participants' Information.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rahmani, Masoumeh Drifting Through Samsara

ISBN:

0-19-757999-X

0-19-757998-1

OCLC:

1251738002