Navigating inclusion: 'home-making' in the UK Shin Buddhist community
Navigating inclusion: 'home-making' in the UK Shin Buddhist community
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引导包容：英国真宗佛教社区的“家庭主妇”
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10.1080/09637494.2023.2212578
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2023
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Kolata P
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这篇文章的重点是在伦敦的日本信教寺庙三轮（Three Wheels）的皈依者之间的归属和排斥的叙述和经历，以调查差异如何被纳入跨国佛教。三轮，其成员包括散居海外的日本人和皈依佛教的欧洲人，在跨国真宗和英国佛教（以及更广泛的宗教）领域都处于边缘地位。我认为，通过接受个人和集体的边缘性，牧师和成员可以培养情感联系，从而形成一个共享的少数群体空间，让不同的成员有宾至如归的感觉。为了探索这种“造家”的动力，我特别关注皈依者如何在社区中协商自己的空间，以及作为日本佛教传统的皈依者，他们如何应对语言、宗教和文化障碍的包容和排斥过程。在“三轮”中，作为共享的少数民族空间的“家”的讨论凸显了跨国佛教中少数民族地位和边缘性的复杂动态。在这种情况下，它还展示了皈依的佛教徒如何与亚洲移民合作，建立了一个似乎成功的混合当地佛教僧伽，以满足其成员的不同需求。
This contribution focuses on narratives and experiences of belonging and exclusion among convert members of Three Wheels, a Japanese Shin Buddhist temple in London, to investigate how difference is incorporated into transnational Buddhism. Three Wheels, whose members include both diasporic Japanese and convert Buddhist Europeans, occupies a marginal position within both transnational Shin Buddhism and the UK’s Buddhist (and broader religious) landscape. By embracing individual and collective marginality, I argue, priests and members foster affective connections that allow for a shared minority space to emerge where its diverse members can feel at home. To explore the dynamics of this ‘home-making’, I focus specifically on how convert members negotiate their own space in the community and the processes of inclusion and exclusion through which they navigate the linguistic, religious, and cultural barriers they encounter as convert members of a Japanese Buddhist tradition. This discussion of home-making within Three Wheels as a shared minority space highlights the complex dynamics of minority status and marginality in transnational Buddhism. It also shows how, in this case, convert Buddhists have worked with Asian migrants to build what appears to be a successful mixed local Buddhist sangha that accommodates the diverse needs of its members.