Abstract
Chapter 1 opens the book by mapping it against the backdrop of critical discourses that are rethinking the relationship between the religious and the secular, faith and knowledge. More specifically, it commits the book to a deconstructive conceptualisation of the ethics of cultural studies, and raises the question of whether such a foundation-less, performative understanding of cultural studies-in-the-making implicitly admits the supportive role of a performative faith in the pursuit of knowledge. This chapter also positions the book’s mode of address as an enunciative practice of the self that ‘speaks personally’ in order to investigate its own social embeddedness as a voice.
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Ng, E. (2016). Introduction. In: Buddhism and Cultural Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54990-7_1
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