Mary's People

Mary's People
Author: Gerry Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

The Buckelew family in the United States from about 1700.

Buddhist Masculinities

Buddhist Masculinities
Author: Megan Bryson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231558430

While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine. This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks. Buddhist Masculinities adopts the methods of religious studies, anthropology, art history, textual-historical studies, and cultural studies to explore texts, images, films, media, and embodiments of masculinity across the Buddhist world, past and present. It turns scholarly attention to normative forms of masculinity that usually go unmarked and unstudied precisely because they are “normal,” illuminating the religious and cultural processes that construct Buddhist masculinities. Engaging with contemporary issues of gender identity, intersectionality, and sexual ethics, Buddhist Masculinities ushers in a new era for the study of Buddhism and gender.

The Genie

The Genie
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1987
Genre: Arkansas
ISBN:

Directory of Family Associations

Directory of Family Associations
Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This directory of family associations, based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, offers contact information on some 6,000 family associations in the US. The directory is useful for those engaging in genealogical research or planning family reunions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR