Navigating Youth Transitions as a Buddhist: Privilege, Reflexivity and Sexuality

This article focuses on how young Buddhists (aged between 18 and 25, living in the UK, who typically had not been raised Buddhist) utilised reflexivity as a strategy to navigate youth transitions. Participants’ decision-making was premised on Buddhist ethics of avoiding harm, cultivating compassion,...

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Published in:Journal of global buddhism
Authors: Page, Sarah-Jane 1982- (Author) ; Yip, Andrew K. T. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Journal of global buddhism
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / Adult (18-25 Jahre) / Buddhism / Self-reflection / Manner of living / Sexuality
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBF British Isles
NCB Personal ethics
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Sexual Misconduct
B Reflexivity
B Buddhism
B sexual diversity
B Youth
B Privilege
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Summary:This article focuses on how young Buddhists (aged between 18 and 25, living in the UK, who typically had not been raised Buddhist) utilised reflexivity as a strategy to navigate youth transitions. Participants’ decision-making was premised on Buddhist ethics of avoiding harm, cultivating compassion, and embracing diversity. They scrutinised their actions to ensure they positioned themselves ethically in their everyday lives, particularly regarding sexuality. This reflexivity had a positive impact at the individual level, enabling them to construct a coherent biographical narrative. Yet, analysing this through the sociological lens of advantage and disadvantage, we posit that these accomplishments were facilitated by certain classed privileges. Their Buddhist identity was cultivated because of , rather than in spite of, their existing privileged location in the social strata, resulting in a consolidation of their already-privileged biographies. Our arguments are based on an in-depth mixed-method project which encompassed questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and video diaries.
ISSN:1527-6457
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4727652