Little Buddhas : Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions - Vanessa R. Sasson

Little Buddhas

Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions

By: Vanessa R. Sasson (Editor)

Hardcover | 27 December 2012

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Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. This collection is intended to open the question of children in Buddhism. It brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in the literature, in particular historical contexts, and what role they continue to play in specific Buddhist contexts today. Because the material is, in most cases, uncharted, all nineteen contributors involved in the project have exchanged chapters among themselves and thereby engaged in a kind of internal cohesion difficult to achieve in an edited project. The volume is divided into two parts. Part One addresses the representation of children in Buddhist texts and Part Two looks at children and childhoods in Buddhist cultures around the world. Little Buddhas will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Buddhism and Childhood Studies, and a catalyst for further research on the topic.
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"Vanessa Sasson's Little Buddhas is a brilliant and engaging work in an emerging area of study: Buddhism and childhood studies. Written by leading scholars, the nineteen articles here explore ideas about childhood, textual representations of children, together with the actual lives of children throughout the history and diversity of Buddhist traditions. This volume challenges common assumptions about Buddhism in provocative ways, and should be a classic for years to come." --Carol S. Anderson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion, Kalamazoo College "Overall, Little Buddhas is a groundbreaking collection full of well-written, well-researched, and thoughtfully organized pieces, with a nice balance between the general and the specific. It further solidifies the trend toward a dense social history of Buddhist traditions and is well suited for undergraduate, graduate, and scholarly audiences. It should remain essential reading for scholars of Buddhism and childhood studies for many years to come." --Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

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Published: 19th November 2012

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