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The faces of Buddhism in America / edited by Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka

Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
Copyright Date
©1998
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Prebish, Charles S. and Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi
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Contents
Chinese Buddhism in America: identity and practice / Stuart Chandler -- Shin Buddhism in America: a social perspective / Alfred Bloom -- Japanese Zen in America: Americanizing the face in the mirror / G. Victor Sogen Hori -- Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai in America: the pioneer spirit / Jane Hurst -- Tibetan Buddhism in America: the development of American Vajrayana / Amy Lavine -- Korean Buddhism in America: a new style of Zen / Mu Soeng -- Vietnamese Buddhism in North America: tradition and acculturation / Cuong Tu Nguyen and A.W. Barber -- Theravada Buddhism in America: prospects for the Sangha / Paul David Numrich -- Insight meditation in the United States: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Gil Fronsdal -- Who is a Buddhist? Charting the landscape of Buddhist America / Jan Nattier -- Divided dharma: white Buddhists, ethnic Buddhists, and racism / Rick Fields -- Americanizing the Buddha: Paul Carus and the transformation of Asian thought / Martin J. Verhoeven -- Buddhist and Western psychotherapies: an Asian American perspective / Ryo Imamura -- Helping the iron bird fly: Western Buddhist women and issues of authority in the late 1990s / Rita M. Gross -- Coming out in the Sangha: queer community in American Buddhism / Roger Corless -- Responding to the cries of the world: socially engaged Buddhism in North America / Donald Rothberg -- Colors and contours of American Buddhism / Kenneth K. Tanaka.
Summary
Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-called "imported" or ethnic Buddhism of Asian immigrants and the "convert" Buddhism of a mostly middle-class, liberal, intellectual elite. In this collection the authors bring together some of the leading voices in Buddhist studies to examine the debates surrounding contemporary Buddhism's many faces. The contributors investigate newly Americanized Asian traditions such as Tibetan, Zen, Nichiren, Jodo Shinshu, and Theravada Buddhism and the changes they undergo to meet the expectations of a Western culture desperate for spiritual guidance. Race, feminism, homosexuality, psychology, environmentalism, and notions of authority are some of the issues confronting Buddhism for the first time in its three-thousand-year history and are powerfully addressed here. In recent years American Buddhism has been featured as a major story on ABC television news, National Public Radio, and in other national media. A strong new Buddhist journalism is emerging in the United States, and American Buddhism has made its way onto the Internet. The faces of Buddhism in America are diverse, active, and growing, and this book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding this vital religious movement
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ISBN
9780520920651 (electronic bk.)
0520920651 (electronic bk.)
0585342792 (electronic bk.)
9780585342795 (electronic bk.)
0520204603 (alk. paper)
0520213017 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520204607 (alk. paper)
9780520213012 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-347) and index.
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