期刊全称 | Buddhist Public Advocacy and Activism in Thailand | 期刊简称 | A Rhetoric of Dignit | 影响因子2023 | Craig M. Pinkerton | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Provides a look at the understudied practices of humanizing communication.Examines socially engaged Buddhism through the missing lens of the communication discipline.Advances innovations in the emergi | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book studies Buddhist public advocacy and activism in Thailand—a movement often broadly called socially engaged Buddhism—from the perspective of rhetorical studies, specifically, on humanizing and dehumanizing communication practices. In modern Thailand and historical Siam, Buddhism has been integral to the social change processes shaping civil society and an emerging democracy. This study examined two problems: How do contemporary Buddhists in Thailand use rhetorical practice to influence the way the issues they work on are understood, and how do these Buddhists justify their advocacy and activism in rhetorical practice? To the first, a rhetoric of dignity, or humanization, was the central answer. To the second, a rhetoric of duty was the central answer. For researchers in Southeast Asian Studies, Thai Studies, and Buddhist Studies, this book offers a fresh perspective on socially engaged Buddhism through the lens of the communication discipline. For researchers in Psychologyand Communication, it sheds light on the understudied practices of humanizing communication. The bulk of the current research is focused on its opposite—dehumanization—and most of this literature is in t | Pindex | Book 2024 |
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