Women's Everyday Spirituality in Diamond Way Buddhism: An Auto-Photographic Study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/18:10361813

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783" target="_blank" >10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Women's Everyday Spirituality in Diamond Way Buddhism: An Auto-Photographic Study

Original language description

The Western world is experiencing increasing popularity of new religious movements whose adherents tend to spirituality, a subjective, personal form of religion focused on individual experience of the transcendent. These spiritual forms shape the spaces of everyday life, their meanings, perceptions, and experiences, which is starting to be reflected in new geographies of religion. In Czechia, one of the most rapidly growing new religious movements is Diamond Way Buddhism. This contribution focuses on how Diamond Way spirituality is lived and experienced in space by a group of participating women. The paper explores this phenomenon using the method of auto-photography. We asked six women to photograph places important to them in their daily lives and interpret their spiritual meaning. This method allows exploration of women&apos;s spirituality in the everyday spaces where it is perceived and experienced, such as kitchens, buses, or natural sites, as well as the importance of participants&apos; subjective understanding of spiritual places. The results show that women have a specific way of experiencing Buddhism in seemingly secular space which they describe through feminine characteristics of transcendence. Everyday spaces become spiritual through the subjects&apos; emotional and continual experiencing of Buddhism, while the officially sacred space of a Buddhist center is incorporated into everyday life activities of women. The division between sacred and secular spaces often described by scholars is therefore challenged.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-08370S" target="_blank" >GA17-08370S: Post-secularism in Czechia: trends and regional differentiation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cultural Geography

ISSN

0887-3631

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

291-314

UT code for WoS article

000441309700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029714014