Christopher Queen, Duncan Ryuken Williams

American Buddhism (eBook, ePUB)

Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first scholarly study of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field, approaching issues such as identity in Asian-American Buddhism, the new Buddhism, and the scholar's place in American Buddhist Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136830402
• Artikelnr.: 39912049

Autorenporträt

Duncan Ry?ken Williams, Christopher S. Queen

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Asian American Buddhist Identities; Chapter 1 Issues of Ethnicity in
the Buddhist Churches of America, Kenneth K. Tanaka; Chapter 2 Japanese
American Zen Temples: Cultural Identity and Economics, Senry? Asai, Duncan
Ry?ken Williams; Chapter 3 Placing Palms Together: Religious and Cultural
Dimensions of the Hsi Lai Temple Political Donations Controversy, Stuart
Chandler; Chapter 4 Ritual and the Performance of Buddhist Identity among
Lao Buddhists in North America, Penny Van Esterik; Part 2 Profiling the New
Buddhists; Chapter 5 Night-Stand Buddhists and Other Creatures:
Sympathizers, Adherents, and the Study of Religion, Thomas A. Tweed;
Chapter 6 The New Buddhism: Some Empirical Findings, James William Coleman;
Chapter 7 Supply and Demand: The Appeal of Buddhism in America, Phillip
Hammond, David Machacek; Part 3 Modes of Dharma Transmission; Chapter 8
Local Inter-Buddhist Associations in North America, Paul David Numrich;
Chapter 9 The Pacific Buddha's Wild Practice: Gary Snyder's Environmental
Ethic, Charles R. Strain; Chapter 10 The Internet as Window onto American
Buddhism, Richard P. Hayes; Part 4 The Scholar's Place in American Buddhist
Studies; Chapter 11 The Academic Study of Buddhism in America: A Silent
Sangha, Charles Prebish; Chapter 12 Buddhist Studies at Naropa: Sectarian
or Academic?, Robert E. Goss; Chapter 13 Buddhist Worlds in the U.S.A.: A
Survey of the Territory, Richard Hughes Seager;