Buddhism in America
This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America.(Franz Aubrey MetcalfThe Journal of Religion)This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S.... [its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.(Martin BaumannReligious Studies Review)Unbiased and insightful,Buddhism in Americaoffers a view of how far the Buddhist movement has come in little more than a century and a peek at where it is going at the dawn of a new millennium.(Don MorrealeTricycle)[Columbia University] Press continues to bring excellent scholarship to the general reader with this outstanding study of American Buddhism.(Jana ReissPublishers Weekly)Seager's account convincingly places developments within the broader context of the North American historyof religion and immigration. Apart from the perceptive observations and the straightforward structure, it is this contextualising perspective which gives the book its particular strength. Although clearly intended for a general readership, a specialist will nevertheless benefit from being directed to take the experience of 'immigrant Buddhism' as seriously as that of 'convert Buddhism'.(AASL, PLA, University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries)Richard Seager marks out a magnificent road map, directing us to important people, places, and issues in multifaceted Buddhist America at the turn of the millennium.... Under Seager's guidance we discover a great deal about the Buddhists of America, but also a great deal about the Americanization of Buddhism.(Paul David Numrich, director of the Buddhist Chicago Project; author ofOld Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples)