An edition of Buddhism in America
(2016)
Buddhism in America
global religion, local contexts
by Scott A. Mitchell
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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.
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Buddhism in America: global religion, local contexts
2016, Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc
in English
147258192X 9781472581921
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Table of Contents
Convergence and divergence
Histories
A very short introduction to Buddhism
Nineteenth century foundations
From acculturation to the counterculture
Diversity and pluralism at century's end
Traditions
Theravada traditions
Mahayana traditions
Vajrayana traditions
Post-modern horizons?
Frames
Buddhist medias: art, practice, and representation
Buddhist identities: race, gender, and sexuality
Buddhist engagements: confronting environmental and social suffering
Buddhist modernities: US Buddhism in its global context.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
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