Mitchell / Quli Buddhism beyond Borders

New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5638-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Buddhism and American Culture

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Scott A.

Quli, Natalie E. F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Buddhism beyond Borders
Scott A. Mitchell and Natalie E. F. Quli

Acknowledgments

Section I. Boundaries, Borders, and Categories

1. Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism: Toward “Translocative” Analysis
Thomas A. Tweed

2. Regionalism within North American Buddhism
Jeff Wilson

3. Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism
Wakoh Shannon Hickey

Section II. Crossing Borders: Transcultural and Translocative Flows

4. “First White Buddhist Priestess”: A Case Study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist Temple
Michihiro Ama

5. Invoking the Dharma Protector: western Involvement in the Dorje Shugden Controversy
Jeannine Chandler

6. Zen at a Distance: Isolation and the Development of Distant Membership
Helen J. Baroni

Section III. Free-Flowing Dharma Discourses

7. Dharma Images and Identity in American Buddhism
Richard Hughes Seager

8. Telling Tales Out of School: The Fiction of Buddhism
Kimberly Beek

9. Mind Full of God: “Jewish Mindfulness” as an Offspring of Western Buddhism in America
Mira Niculescu

Section IV. Modernity and Modernities

10. The United States of Jhana: Varieties of Modern Buddhism in America
Erik Braun

11.Buddhism and Multiple Modernities
David L. McMahan

12. Buddhist Modernism as Narrative: A Comparative Study of Jodo Shinshu and Zen
Natalie E. F. Quli and Scott A. Mitchell

Afterword: Buddhism beyond Borders Beyond the Rhetorics of Rupture
Richard K. Payne

Works Cited
List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Scott A. Mitchell is Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and a core doctoral faculty member at the Graduate Theological Union. Natalie E. F. Quli teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and is assistant editor of Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies.