How Long to Read Guardians of the Buddha’s Home

How Long Does it Take to Read Guardians of the Buddha’s Home?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 21 minutes to read Guardians of the Buddha’s Home by Jessica Starling

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Guardians of the Buddha’s Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on “domestic religion,” a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature. The Buddhist temple wife’s movement back and forth between the main hall and the “back stage” of the kitchen and family residence highlights the way religious meaning cannot be confined to canonical texts or to the area of the temple prescribed for formal worship. Starling argues that attaining Buddhist faith (shinjin) is just as likely to occur in response to a simple act of hospitality, a sense of community experienced at an informal temple gathering, or an aesthetic affinity with the temple space that has been carefully maintained by the bōmori as it is from hearing the words of a Pure Land sutra intoned by a professional priest. For temple wives, the spiritual practice of button hōsha (repayment of the debt owed to the Buddha for one’s salvation) finds expression through the conscientious stewardship of temple donations, caring for the Buddha’s home and opening it to lay followers, raising the temple’s children, and propagating the teachings in the domestic sphere. Engaging with what religious scholars have called the “turn to affect,” Starling’s work investigates in personal detail how religious dispositions are formed in individual practitioners. The answer, not surprisingly, has as much to do with intimate relationships and quotidian practices as with formal liturgies or scripted sermons.

How long is Guardians of the Buddha’s Home?

Guardians of the Buddha’s Home by Jessica Starling is 201 pages long, and a total of 50,451 words.

This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Guardians of the Buddha’s Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 35 minutes to read Guardians of the Buddha’s Home aloud.

What Reading Level is Guardians of the Buddha’s Home?

Guardians of the Buddha’s Home is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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