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The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism: Oxford Handbooks

Editat de Ann Gleig, Scott A. Mitchell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 aug 2024
First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some presence in North America in addition to a variety of Buddhist “convert” communities, hybrid communities, and “secular” Buddhist networks. Buddhist-derived practices such as mindfulness meditation have been deployed in health care and educational settings, the military, and the business sector. The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism guides readers through the rich terrain of American Buddhism, illuminating the diversity of Buddhist communities and identities, exploring the innovations that have emerged from the cross-fertilization of Buddhism and American culture, and extending the theoretical and methodological boundaries that have shaped the study of American Buddhism. The Handbook is organized into four parts: Foundations, Traditions, Practices, and Frames. The essays in this volume both build upon and go beyond previous scholarship, reexamining foundational topics while recovering neglected histories, centering marginalized identities, and analyzing the intersections between Buddhist practice and scholarship.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197539033
ISBN-10: 0197539033
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 181 x 250 x 45 mm
Greutate: 1.06 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Handbooks

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The contributors primarily are professors and other scholars, and the book makes a real contribution by presenting American Buddhism at the present and the near future.
The Handbook has cleared the boards of old assumptions about practice, race, and gender in American Buddhism and has pointed to where more research is needed tocraft a new, more complex, and fully-throated narrative of the phenomenon. Although it is unlikely that the two Buddhisms/two communities rhetoric and dynamic will ever entirely go away, the Handbook provides the critical tools needed to guide a next generation to devise a more equitable and synoptic telling of the story ofBuddhism in the USA.

Notă biografică

Ann Gleig is Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. She is author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity. She serves as an editor at the Journal of Global Buddhism.Scott A. Mitchell is Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He is the author of The Making of American Buddhism and Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts.