Women, religion, and digital counter-publics: introduction

C Starkey, E Tomalin, A Halafoff - Journal of Contemporary …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Even after decades of critical scholarship on religion and the Internet, a rapidly changing
field and a febrile global political climate demand renewed questions about the relationships …

A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia

K Ferguson - Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 - globalbuddhism.org
Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of
monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed …

Women and religion in Oceania

A Halafoff, K McPhillips - The Routledge Handbook of Religion …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter describes the importance of women in religion in Oceania and their contribution
to religious settlement and social justice in particular. It provides a historical overview …

[PDF][PDF] Making Merit, Making Movement: The Thai Bhikkhuni Movement and Social Media

K Yavaprabhas - researchgate.net
In this era, in which social media has become a part of everyday lives, many Buddhist
monastics and organizations in Thai society use social media to reach out to the public …