North American Buddhists in Social Context ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Numrich Paul David

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9789047443537

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004168268

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789004168268

Subject： B9 Religion

Keyword：宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

The first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on North American Buddhists, this volume examines the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context. Case studies feature Southeast Asian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, meditation-oriented, and socially engaged Buddhists.

Chapter

Preface: On the Being of Not Being (William H. Swatos, Jr)

1. North American Buddhists: A Field of Study? (Paul David Numrich)

2. Themes and Issues in the Study of North American Buddhists and Buddhism (Janet McLellan)

3. Temple and Society in the New World: Theravada Buddhism and Social Order in North America (Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo)

4. The Buddhist Mission of North America 1898-1942: Religion and Its Social Functions in an Ethnic Community (Arthur Nishimura)

5. Japanese American Religiosity: A Contemporary Perspective (Tetsuden Kashima)

6. "True Buddhism is Not Chinese": Taiwanese Immigrants Defi ning Buddhist Identity in the United States (Carolyn Chen)

7. A Religious Minority within an Ethnic Minority: Korean American Buddhists (Karen Chai Kim)

8. The Emergence of a New Buddhism: Continuity and Change (James William Coleman)

9. Soka Gakkai: Engaged Buddhism in North America (Constance Lynn Geekie)

Afterword: Modernization, Globalization, and Buddhism (Joseph B. Tamney)

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