{"title":"Disaffiliation Trajectories","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores (1) drifters in samsara and (2) pursuers of the gateless gate as two common Vipassana disaffiliation trajectories. The chapter argues that deconversion or migration outside of the movement’s universe of discourse is a rare exit pattern in this movement. It shows that in the vast majority of cases the participants’ search for an alternative universe of discourse post exit did not land them outside the Buddhist tradition; that, in fact, the language and reasoning of most participants remained close to that of the movement. The chapter contextualises this claim by borrowing from Bromley’s (1998a; 1998b) tripartite typology, which asserts that organisations that occupy a low-tension position in their host environment are likely to exert control over the exit process and its narrative and consequently the departing members tend to reaffirm the goals and values of the group.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"9 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127402571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconversion","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores deconversion as a rare exit pattern from Goenka’s Vipassana movement. Through a detailed exploration of a single case study, this chapter explores the narrator’s attempt to flee the movement’s universe of discourse. The chapter introduces the term ‘authenticity talk’ to refer to a style of discourse that functions both as (1) a recourse for self-reconstruction post exit, and (2) a rhetoric that provided the narrator with a sense of autonomy, empowerment, and self-validation. The chapter argues that the disengagement literature takes authenticity talk at face value and mistakenly conceives of it as an actual motive behind exit.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"89 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128004607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concluding Discussions","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a general discussion of the study at hand, disengagement in the context of tacit conversion. It summarises the main arguments of the book and highlight its contribution to the existing body of knowledge. Most notably, the chapter raises questions about the normative participant-recruitment approach in conversion studies, arguing that a simple reliance on the informants’ identification or rejection of categories fails to encompass the tonalities of conversion in the contemporary spiritual landscape. Lastly, the chapter address the major limitations and implications of this research for current scholarship such as study of unbelief and nonreligion and conclude this book with several recommendations for future research.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116135867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tacit Conversion","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the concept of tacit conversion as an analytical framework for conceptualising the process of personal transformation and increased commitment to Goenka’s Vipassana movement. This chapter is based on a detailed examination of an old student’s language and his performance of the role of a Vipassana meditator. By paying attention to the content of speech, as well as other modalities of communication, including the inflections, tonalities, and the delivery of the narrative, the chapter illustrates that committed old students essentially perform a narrative that in many ways resemble what have been categorised as ‘conversion narratives’ in other traditions. This chapter also outlines several themes that are central to the participants’ experience of self-transformation such as self-acceptance, agency, and the mind-body relationship.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129630780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic Leaving","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the narratives of pragmatic leavers, which represent the accounts of those individuals who disengaged prior to developing commitment and therefore had minimum exposure to this movement. Because empirical studies on leaving religion are primarily built upon the experience of those individuals who leave a movement after long periods of intense devotion and commitment, this chapter prioritised a descriptive approach in order to adequately depict this phenomenon. It argues that pragmatic leavers are (to some extent) experience seekers, and their narrative plots were amenable to the types of meditative experiences they had. The chapter presents three interrelated themes that characterised the language of these disengagement narratives—(1) pragmatism, (2) dualistic discourse, and (3) ambivalence—and demonstrates how each narrative differs based on a particular dynamic between these features.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121147027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaffiliation","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a detailed examination of the narratives of individuals who left Goenka’s Vipassana movement after years of intense commitment. The analysis is done in light of the recent developments in religious disengagement literature. Through detailed linguistic analysis of a case study, the chapter argues that Vipassana disaffiliation narratives are characterised by an ambivalent language, which involved the participants’ ongoing convictions about the transformative efficacy of the technique and a certain doubt about their own abilities to progress towards enlightenment. Despite this characteristic, many facets of Vipassana disaffiliation narratives corresponded with the existing literature on religious disengagement, even though the process of conversion was tacit for these individuals.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116619350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversion Career","authors":"Masoumeh Rahmani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579961.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter adopts Gooren’s conversion career model as a heuristic framework to demonstrate how one’s universe of discourse changes with increased participation and identifies the linguistic markers of this change. The chapter is divided into four sections and is rich with data: the first section explores the participants’ preaffiliation context by looking at their biographical narratives. The next section examines practices that mark formal affiliation to Goenka’s movement and the significance of these for the process of conversion. The third section reflects on the sociocultural and institutional factors that harbour participants’ rejection of the category of conversion and the Buddhist identity. This section subsequently proceeds with detailed exploration of the participants’ language, and the linguistic patterns associated with their transition to conversion. The final section on commitment depicts the characteristics of a core member identity based on the meditators’ language, reasoning, and their self-representation or performance of the Vipassana meditator’s role.","PeriodicalId":365483,"journal":{"name":"Drifting through Samsara","volume":"9 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133237867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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