Buddhist Responses to Globalization

Herausgeber: Kalmanson, Leah; Shields, James Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism-arguably the world's first transnational religion-is a rich resource for navigating todays interconnected world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780739180549
• ISBN-10: 0739180541
• Artikelnr.: 40845465

Autorenporträt

Edited by Leah Kalmanson and James Mark Shields - Contributions by Peter D. Hershock; Carolyn M. Jones Medine; Ugo Dessi; Melanie L. Harris; John W. M. Krummel and Erin McCarthy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
James Mark Shields and Leah Kalmanson Part I: Globalization as Spatial
Cultural
and Economic Deterritorialization 1) Squaring Freedom with Equity: Challenging the Karma of the Globalization of Choice
Peter D. Hershock 2) Alice Walker
the Grand Mother
and a Buddhist-Womanist Response to Globalization
Carolyn M. Jones Medine 3) Religious Change as Glocalization: The Case of Shin Buddhism in Honolulu
Ugo Dessì 4) From Topos to Utopia: Critical Buddhism
Globalization
and Ideology Criticism
James Mark Shields Part II: Normative Responses to Globalization 5) An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of Reparations
Leah Kalmanson 6) Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theologies: Fierce Compassion as a Mode of Justice
Melanie L. Harris 7) World
Nothing
and Globalization in Nishida and Nancy
John W. M. Krummel 8) A Zen Master Meets Contemporary Feminism: Reading D¿gen as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy
Erin McCarthy