Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Subtitle: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: June 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807854587
Subjects: Asian studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Orientalism; History; Religion; Religion - World Religions; United States - 20th Century; Buddhism - General; Religious; History / United States / 20th Century; History-United States - 20th Century; Japanese Buddhism; Columbian Exposition; World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893; heathenism; idolatry; Manifest Destiny; Zen; Meiji Buddhist revival; Japanese nationalist movements; orientalism; Philosophy-Religious; Religion / Buddhism; 1868-1945; Buddhism; Japan; Missions
Description: Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.