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Buddhism in America
Richard Hughes Seager
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Description for Buddhism in America
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups that shape the tradition-an emerging Asian immigrant population, native-born converts, and old-line Asian American Buddhists-and their distinct, yet spiritually connected efforts to remake Buddhism in a Western context. This edition updates existing text and adds three new essays on contemporary developments in American Buddhism, particularly the aging of the baby boom population and its effect ... Read more
Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups that shape the tradition-an emerging Asian immigrant population, native-born converts, and old-line Asian American Buddhists-and their distinct, yet spiritually connected efforts to remake Buddhism in a Western context. This edition updates existing text and adds three new essays on contemporary developments in American Buddhism, particularly the aging of the baby boom population and its effect ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231159739
SKU
V9780231159739
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About Richard Hughes Seager
Richard Hughes Seager is professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and the author of Encountering the Dharma; The World's Parliament of Religions: The East-West Encounter, Chicago, 1893; and Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World's Parliament of Religions.
Reviews for Buddhism in America
Praise for the previous edition: "This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S... [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective."-Religious Studies Review "This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America."-The Journal ... Read more