Becoming a Buddhist: The Duality of Ritual and Belief

Rodríguez, José Antonio Climent; Mohr, John W.; Halcomb, Laura

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20170000053007

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“…Attitudes would refer to the structures of meaning that frame the individual's actions in his quest for happiness. Action can also be seen as the ritual for achieving happiness, enshrining certain attitudes and beliefs (Rodríguez, Mohr and Halcomb, 2017b). It can also be analysed in Bourdieu's terms (1994), under the dichotomy between structure and agency.…”

Section: The Content: Towards a Typology Of Actions For Happinessmentioning

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Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions

Pérez

Díaz

Bosch

et al. 2021

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This paper draws up a proposal for analysing discourses on paths to happiness. Recipes promoted by the happiness industry are studied as moral guidelines for social action: imperative messages spread through the Internet seek to guide their recipients in their quest for happiness. In a fielddominated by positive psychology, we approach happiness from a sociological perspective, which is to say as: an institutionalised social discourse; a form of social production; a socially-framed emotion. Research is based on systematic Internet observation and on quantitative and qualitative textual analysis procedures. We show how digital media in the ‘happiness’ field: (a) promotes recipes; (b) provides scientific legitimation for said recipes; (c) focuses on a generic individual as the recipient of the messages and as protagonist. A typology is proposed based on the meaning, nature and object of the actions that lead to happiness. Results show how recipes involve normative and moral orientations of actions and emotions: they indicate what to do and how to think andfeel to be happy. Happiness as a moral obligation involves most concerns shaping the agenda of contemporary societies, with a strong emphasis on individualism and on a utilitarian understanding of social relations and the social environment.

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Section: The Content: Towards a Typology Of Actions For Happinessmentioning

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Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions

Pérez

Díaz

Bosch

et al. 2021

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“…The paper by Rodriguez, Mohr, and Halcomb (2017) relates to this theme in its focus on how practices and beliefs of individuals form common lifestyle configurations. Focusing on one community organization (a Buddhist monastery in modern Europe) and its efforts to recruit members from the local community, Rodriguez and his colleagues argue that one can usefully map out configurations of practices and beliefs that capture the institutional logic of a focal organization.…”

Section: Meaning: the Duality Of Structure And Contentmentioning

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Structure, Content, and Meaning of Organizational Networks: Extending Network Thinking, Introduction

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Groenewegen²,

Moser³

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations

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In appreciation of John Mohr

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Becoming a Buddhist: The Duality of Ritual and Belief

Cited by 4 publications

References 69 publications

Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions

Recipes for Happiness: a Proposal for Analysing the Moral Orientation of Actions and Emotions

Structure, Content, and Meaning of Organizational Networks: Extending Network Thinking, Introduction

In appreciation of John Mohr

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