The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Subtitle: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780807849064
Subjects: History of religion; c 1800 to c 1900; Study and teaching; Buddhism; Religion; Religion - World Religions; United States - 19th Century; USA; United States; Buddhism - General; History / United States / 19th Century; History-United States - 19th Century; Religion / Buddhism; Victorian America; H. D. Thoreau; religion;; History; Intellectual life
First sentence: In 1873 James Clement Moffat (18811-80), the professor of church history from Princeton Theological Seminar, published the second volume of his Comparative History of Religions.