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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
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SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface: Buddhism beyond Borders; Acknowledgments; Section I. Boundaries, Borders, and Categories; 1. Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism:Toward "Translocative" Analysis; Religion as Crossing and Dwelling; The Theory's Buddhist Parallels and Methodological Implications; Two Case Studies: Flows in the Atlantic World and the Pacific World; Axioms for the Translocative Study of Buddhism; Moral Implications: Toward a Kinetic and Relational Ethic; Notes; 2. Regionalism within North American Buddhism; Introduction; Five Forms of Regional Analysis. |
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Factors in North American Buddhist RegionalismConclusions; Notes; 3. Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism; Some Definitions: Race, Racism, and Privilege; Two and Three Buddhisms in the Study of American Buddhism; "American Buddhism" versus "Buddhism in America"; How Racism and Privilege Operate in this Debate; Elite, Ethnic, and Evangelical Buddhisms; Problems with the category "ethnic buddhists"; Developmental Models; Conclusion; Notes; Section II. Crossing Borders:Transcultural and Translocative Flows. |
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4. "First White Buddhist Priestess": A Case Study of Sunya Gladys Pratt at the Tacoma Buddhist TempleA Brief Biography of Sunya Gladys Pratt; Theravada Buddhism, Shin Buddhism, and Universal Buddhism; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Invoking the Dharma Protector: Western Involvement in the Dorje Shugden Controversy; Notes; 6. Zen at a Distance: Isolation and the Development of Distant Membership; Distant Participation in Translocal Buddhist Networks; Robert Aitken and Honolulu Diamond Sangha; Isolation From a Teacher or Sangha; Corresponding Membership; Distant Membership; Conclusions; Notes. |
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Section III. Free-flowing Dharma Discourses7. Dharma Images and Identity in American Buddhism; Smile of the Buddha; Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; 8. Telling Tales Out of School: The Fiction of Buddhism; Emergence; Contexts; Juxtaposition; Reception; Conclusion; Notes; 9. Mind Full of God: "Jewish Mindfulness" as an Offspring of Western Buddhism in America; Religious Globalization in the West and the Genealogy of Jewish Mindfulness; The Jewish-Buddhist Encounter; The "Jewish Buddhism" Phenomenon; From Jewish Renewal to Jewish Mindfulness. |
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From Vipassana to Jewish Mindfulness: Mindfulness and Cosmopolitan CultureFrom the Westernization of Vipassana to Mindfulness; From Secularized Mindfulness to "Jewish Mindfulness"; The Cosmopolitanization of American Jews; "Jewish Mindfulness" as a New Religious Label; A Lineage: From Buddhist Teachers to Jewish Mindfulness Grassroots Communities; A Hybrid Practice; A New Theology and Doctrinal Debates; Conclusion; Notes; Section IV. Modernity and Modernities; 10. The United States of Jhāna: Varieties of Modern Buddhism in America; The Jhānas in Meditation Practice. |
| Summary |
Buddhism beyond Borders provides a fresh consideration of Buddhism in the American context. It includes both theoretical discussions and case studies to highlight the tension between studies that locate Buddhist communities in regionally specific areas and those that highlight the translocal nature of an increasingly interconnected world. Whereas previous examinations of Buddhism in North America have assumed a more or less essentialized and homogeneous "American" culture, the essays in this volume offer a corrective, situating American Buddhist groups within the framework of globalized cultural flows, while exploring the effects of local forces. Contributors examine regionalism within American Buddhisms, Buddhist identity and ethnicity as academic typologies, Buddhist modernities, the secularization and hybridization of Buddhism, Buddhist fiction, and Buddhist controversies involving the internet, among other issues. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Buddhism -- United States.
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Buddhism. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Mitchell, Scott A., 1973- editor.
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Quli, Natalie E. F., 1973- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Buddhism beyond borders 9781438456379 (DLC) 2014026036 (OCoLC)895728308 |
| ISBN |
9781438456386 (electronic book) |
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1438456387 (electronic book) |
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9781438456379 |
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1438456379 |
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