Constrictive Constructs: Unravelling the influence of Weber's sociology on Theravada studies since the 1960s

Choompolpaisal, Phibul

doi:10.1080/14639940802312600

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“…In triangulation with qualitative data, quantitative data may help to overcome constrictive worldviews of observers locked into outsider paradigms with reference to Buddhism (Choompolpaisal 2008) or blinkered views as insiders. Worries about observer bias common in ethnological techniques (Clifford and Marcus 1986) are less of an issue in a mixed-methods design such as that of the present research study.…”

Section: What Scientific Research Has Become In the Early Years Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

What makes younota Buddhist?: a preliminary mapping of values

Thanissaro¹

2012

Contemporary Buddhism

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This study sets out to establish which Buddhist values contrasted with or were shared by adolescents from a non-Buddhist population. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Buddhist values was fielded in a sample of 352 non-Buddhist schoolchildren aged between 13 and 15 in London. Buddhist values where attitudes were least positive concerned the worth of being a monk/nun or meditating, offering candles & incense on the Buddhist shrine, friendship on Sangha Day, avoiding drinking alcohol, seeing the world as empty or impermanent and Nirvana as the ultimate peace. Buddhist values most closely shared by nonBuddhists concerned the Law of Karma, calming the mind, respecting those deserving of respect, subjectivity of happiness, welfare work, looking after parents in old age and compassion to cuddly animals. Further significant differences of attitude toward Buddhism were found in partial correlations with the independent variables of sex, age and religious affiliation. Correlation patterns paralleled those previously described in theistic religions. Findings are applied to spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and for the teaching of religious to pupils of no faith adherence. The study recommends that quantitative psychometrics employed to conceptualize Buddhist values by discriminant validity in this study could be extended usefully to other aspects of the study of Buddhism, particularly in quest of validity in the conceptualization of Buddhist identity within specifically Buddhist populations.

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Section: What Scientific Research Has Become In the Early Years Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%