UID:
almafu_9959731743102883
Format:
1 online resource (270 unnumbered pages)
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
Content:
Buddhism beyond Borders provides a fresh consideration of Buddhism in the American context. It includes both theoretical discussions and case studies to highlight the tension between studies that locate Buddhist communities in regionally specific areas and those that highlight the translocal nature of an increasingly interconnected world. Whereas previous examinations of Buddhism in North America have assumed a more or less essentialized and homogeneous "American" culture, the essays in this volume offer a corrective, situating American Buddhist groups within the framework of globalized cultural flows, while exploring the effects of local forces. Contributors examine regionalism within American Buddhisms, Buddhist identity and ethnicity as academic typologies, Buddhist modernities, the secularization and hybridization of Buddhism, Buddhist fiction, and Buddhist controversies involving the internet, among other issues.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed January 18, 2019).
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Theory and method in the study of Buddhism : toward "translocative" analysis /
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Regionalism within North American Buddhism /
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Two Buddhisms, three Buddhisms, and racism /
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"First White Buddhist priestess" : a case study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist temple /
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Invoking the dharma protector : Western involvement in the Dorje Shugden controversy /
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Zen at a distance : isolation and the development of distant membership /
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Dharma images and identity in American Buddhism /
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Telling tales out of school : the fiction of Buddhism /
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Mind full of God : "Jewish mindfulness" as an offspring of Western Buddhism in America /
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The United States of Jhana : varieties of modern Buddhism in America /
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Buddhism and multiple modernities /
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Buddhist modernism as narrative : a comparative study of Jodo Shinshu and Zen /
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Buddhism beyond borders : beyond the rhetorics of rupture /
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Essays.
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Essays.
