This paper describes and analyses the Soka Buddhism in Argentina with the aim of studying gender stereotypes and the specific institutional mechanisms through which they are (re)produced. The research involved three years of participant observation (2018- 2020) in multiple ethnographic spaces in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, documentary hermeneutic analysis and a series of in-depth interviews with members (n=25). The main contributions are to enrich the debates on new spiritualities with institutional/organizational data, and to bring to the fore the mechanisms of material and symbolic (re)production of differences and inequalities among men and women who practice this Buddhism.
Keywords:
Buddhism, institutional analysis, gender, stereotypes, Argentina
Sciurano, G., Melamud, M., & Alquezar, M. B. (2021). (Re)production of gender stereotypes in Argentinean SokaBuddhism. Revista Punto Género, (16), pp.145–168. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2021.65884
