So excited to collaborate with the brilliant Amy Langenberg on this project. Eckerd professor awarded Luce funding to document sexual abuse in American Buddhismhttps://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/sexual-abuse-american-buddhism/?fbclid=IwAR3q-Dk7JuPyXjMh3ManjAKek3NwM2IgVElYpg4VoL-Phb9P8CP38NTavgM …
I applaud the effort but I worry that sexual abuse will be viewed as ‘exceptional’ acts committed by a few ‘predators’ rather than as The Rule—the expected outcome of an authoritarian religion. Cults, domination, learned passivity all structural w/in Buddhism.
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don't worry: we are much more interested in looking at structures and generative responses rather than the "Buddhist bad apple" response.
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