Race and religion in American Buddhism
Subtitle: white supremacy and immigrant adaptation
By: Joseph Cheah
Series: AAR academy series; American Academy of Religion academy series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780199756285
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; Buddhism; Racism; Burmese Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Colonial legacy of white supremacy in American Buddhism; title: Buddhist modernism and the American vipassana movement; title: Adaptation of vipassana meditation by convert Buddhists and sympathizers; title: Assimilationist paradigm and Burmese Americans; title: Monastic and domestic settings; title: Burmese loyalty structure and the dual domination paradigm; title: Conclusion.