American Buddhism : methods and findings in recent scholarship / edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams and Christopher S. Queen.
Contributor(s): Williams, Duncan Ryūken | Queen, Christopher S
Material type: TextSeries: Curzon critical studies in Buddhism: Publisher: Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 1999Description: xxxvii, 329 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0700712046 (pbk.); 0700710817; 9780700710812Subject(s): Buddhism -- United States -- Congresses | Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Congresses | Asian Americans -- Religion -- Congresses | Buddhists -- United States -- Congresses | Buddhist converts -- United States -- Congresses | Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Bibliography | Buddhist renewal -- United States -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BQ732 .A44 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903097869 |
"The present volume has its origins in a conference ... held at the Harvard Divinity School in May 1997"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Christopher S. Queen -- Issues of ethnicity in the Buddhist churches of America / Kenneth K. Tanaka -- Japanese American Zen temples : cultural identity and economics / Senryō Asai and Duncan Ryūken Williams -- Placing palms together : religious and cultural dimensions of the Hsi Lai Temple political donations controversy / Stuart Chandler -- Ritual and the performance of Buddhist identity among Lao Buddhists in North America / Penny Van Esterik -- Night-stand Buddhists and other creatures : sympathizers, adherents , and the study of religion / Thomas A. Tweed -- The new Buddhism : some empirical findings / James William Coleman -- Supply and demand : the appeal of American Buddhism -- Phillip Hammond and David Machacek -- Local inter-Buddhist associations in North America / Paul David Numrich --
The Pacific Buddha's wild practice : Gary Snyder's environmental ethic / Charles R. Strain -- The internet as window onto American Buddhism / Richard P. Hayes -- The academic study of Buddhism in America : a silent sangha / Charles S. Prebish -- Buddhist studies at Naropa : sectarian or academic? / Robert E. Goss -- Buddhist worlds in the U.S.A. : a survey of the territory / Richard Hughes Seager -- Dissertations and theses on American Buddhism / compiled by Duncan Ryūken Williams -- North American dissertations and theses on topics related to Buddhism / compiled by Duncan Ryūken Williams.