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Gendered Charisma in the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Movement
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The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation of Taiwan is a lay Buddhist movement under monastic leadership that has a mission of relieving all living beings from suffering. The founder and leader is the Venerable (or the Dharma Master) Cheng Yen (Zhengyan fashi). Cheng Yen is an ordained nun and, at the same time, commands considerable personal appeal. While Tzu Chi's current membership of several million does include a significant number of men, the majority of followers, especially the core members, continue to be women. What do Taiwanese women see in Cheng Yen and in Tzu Chi? Drawing from ethnography in southern Taiwan and the Tzu Chi literatures on Cheng Yen, this paper attempts to show a pattern of normalizing female charisma—in the sense that female followers struggle for a breakthrough from the cultural constraints of their female gender roles by means of, and by virtue of, the Tzu Chi mission.
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“Studies of Chinese religions have interpreted pure charisma as 'expectations of the extraordinary' (Feuchtwang 2008) and emphasized the affective nature of these expectations (Goossaert and Ownby 2008; Huang 2008).”
From Buddhist Ritual as “Connectionwork”: Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Belonging (2021) · cites this paper as Huang 2008
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“An important aspect to highlight regarding charismatic ritual performances is the role that the audience plays, including their receptivity and openness, as well as their expectations of the extraordinary.”
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- Authors
- Huang, C. J.
- Corresponding author
- Huang, C. Julia
- ORCID
- Huang, C. Julia
- Venue
- Nova Religio
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2008-11-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 29-47
- ISSN
- 1092-6690 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-8480
- OpenAlex
- W2156390307
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 14.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society in Latin America
- Keywords
- Tzu Chi, gender roles, women in Buddhism, religious leadership, Taiwanese women
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