Teaching Buddhism : new insights on understanding and presenting the traditions / edited by Todd Lewis, Gary DeAngelis.
Contributor(s): Lewis, Todd [editor.] | DeAngelis, Gary Delaney [editor.]
Material type: TextSeries: AAR teaching religious studies: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xxviii, 400 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199373093; 0199373094Subject(s): Buddhism -- Study and teaching | Buddhist educationDDC classification: 294.3071 LOC classification: BQ158 | .T43 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BQ158 .T43 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903377931 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Foreword: Tensions in the field of religious and Buddhist studies / John S. Strong -- Part I: Updating perennial course subjects -- Teaching Buddhism as philosophy / Mark Siderits -- Teaching Nāgārjuna / Roger R. Jackson -- Teaching Yogācāra Buddhism using cognitive science / William S. Waldron -- Teaching Tantric Buddhism in an undergraduate classroom context / David B. Gray -- Rethinking the teaching of Zen Buddhism / Steven Heine -- Part II: Reimagining the content of "Buddhism" -- In defense of the Dharma: Buddhists and politics / Thomas Borchert and Ian Harris -- Conveying Buddhist tradition through its rituals / Todd Lewis -- Part III: Issues in teaching, practice, and connecting students with the tradition -- Teaching Buddhism in the Western academy / Jan Willis -- Teaching Buddhist history to Buddhist practitioners / Rita M. Gross -- Deconstructing fixed identity categories and cultivating appreciation for diversity: teaching Buddhism and feminism / Hsiao-Lan Hu -- Teaching Buddhism in the world religions course: challenges and promise / Gary Deangelis -- Part IV: Buddhism and the American context -- When the iron bird flies: seeking Western Buddhism in the classroom / Charles Prebish -- Conveying Buddhism in the classroom: working with assumptions on family and children / Vanessa R. Sasson -- Teaching engaged Buddhism in uncertain times / Christopher Queen -- Part V: Buddhism in new academic fields -- History of Buddhist-Christian dialogue / Paul O. Ingram -- Teaching Buddhist bioethics / Damien Keown -- Buddhist environmentalism / Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Natachecha-Sponsel -- Buddhism and economic development / Laszlo Zsolnai -- "We can do no less": Buddhism and social justice / Anna Brown.