Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
4. The Idea of Nunhood Matures
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns - An Intersectional Study - Mitra Härkönen
Mitra Härkönen [+]
University of Helsinki
Mitra Härkönen is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Description
In the chapter, the various motives of becoming a nun are presented. There were both more religious and more mundane – even if closely intertwined – reasons behind the choices of the nuns I interviewed.