Dissident Bodies and Studies of Gender in Buddhism: Brazilian Perspectives

Coutinho S.R.; Matias I.A.

Dissident Bodies and Studies of Gender in Buddhism: Brazilian Perspectives

Tipo

Artigo

Data de publicação

2023

Periódico

International Journal of Latin American Religions

Citações (Scopus)

0

Autores

Coutinho S.R.
Matias I.A.

Resumo

© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Social scientists of religion have pointed out the absence of non-Christian religious references that make relations to dissident gender expressions (non-normative, outside the heterosexual axis). With this gap in mind, this text will try to bring light to the debate within the Buddhist tradition by outlining a brief journey on the attitude of this tradition toward deviant bodies and sexuality. In the first moment, we will analyze how the doctrine did or did not support the expression of the diversity of bodies and sexual relations in early Buddhism. We will then present a short portrait by describing some LGBTQI + religious communities which formed within this religion.