Negotiating Boundaries Between "Religious" and "Secular": A Struggle for the Sense of Collectivity Among Ambedkarite Buddhists in Maharashtra
Since the first mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism in 1956, followers of B. R. Ambedkar's vision have propagated Buddhism throughout India, creating various activist networks across, but not limited to, Maharashtra. Despite their aspirations for socio-political change and emancipation for m...
Main Author: | Tereza Menšíková |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Society for the Study of Global Buddhism
2023-12-01
|
Series: | Journal of Global Buddhism |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.globalbuddhism.org/article/view/3840 |
Similar Items
-
Listening to the Call for Social Justice: On Ambedkarite Women’s Songs and Poetic Expressions from Maharashtra, India
by: Smita M. Patil
Published: (2023-07-01) -
Ambedkar and the Buddha's Sangha: A Ground for Buddhist Ethics
by: Timothy Loftus
Published: (2021-12-01) -
Glimpses into the Life of an Engineer, Scholar and Public Intellectual
by: Roland Lardinois
Published: (2019-03-01) -
A Buddhist bible /
by: Goddard, Dwight
Published: (1970) -
Ambedkar, Buddhism, and Post-secularism: Inner Life, Politics, and Subalternity
by: Vidhu Verma