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Drifting through Samsara

- Tacit Conversion and Disengagement in Goenka's Vipassana Movement

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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.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9780197579961
  • Format:
  • Inbunden
  • Sidor:
  • 264
  • Utgiven:
  • 31. mars 2022
  • Mått:
  • 224x150x31 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 476 g.
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Förväntad leverans: 16. september 2025

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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.

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