Dixie dharma
Subtitle: inside a Buddhist temple in the American South
By: Jeff Wilson
Edition: 1.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780807835456
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Buddhism
Description: "In Dixie dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple (Ekoji Buddhist Sangha) in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting to life in the conservative evangelical Christian culture of the South, and how traditional Southerners are adjusting to these newer members on the religious landscape."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South; title: Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism; title: The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia; title: The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces; title: There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism; title: Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture; title: The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual; title: Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.