Buddhism in America
Subtitle: global religion, local contexts
By: Scott A. Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781472581921; 9781472581938; 9781472581945; 9781472581952
Subjects: Buddhismus; Buddhism; 11.93 Buddhism; Region
Description: Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism's history and encounter with North American culture, charts the landscape of US Buddhist communities, and engages current methodological and theoretical developments in the field. -- Provided by Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Convergence and divergence; title: Histories; title: A very short introduction to Buddhism; title: Nineteenth century foundations; title: From acculturation to the counterculture; title: Diversity and pluralism at century's end; title: Traditions; title: Theravada traditions; title: Mahayana traditions; title: Vajrayana traditions; title: Post-modern horizons?; title: Frames; title: Buddhist medias: art, practice, and representation; title: Buddhist identities: race, gender, and sexuality; title: Buddhist engagements: confronting environmental and social suffering; title: Buddhist modernities: US Buddhism in its global context.