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"Three Trees Make a Mountain": Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam

"Three Trees Make a Mountain": Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam

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"Three Trees Make a Mountain": Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam

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"Three Trees Make a Mountain": Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam

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Nagoya: Nanzan University

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Asian folklore studies, 2022-01, Vol.81 (1/2), p.3-22

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English

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Nagoya: Nanzan University

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This article examines how women adapt devotional Buddhist worldviews within popular charity movements in Vietnam. Buddhist volunteerism is on the rise across Asia. In Vietnam, government officials encourage religious philanthropy among policy shifts toward increasing economic privatization and decreasing state welfare. Promoting philanthropy is one...

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"Three Trees Make a Mountain": Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2691519381

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2691519381

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1882-6865

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