Genre:
Religion & Theologie
Autor:
David L. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College) McMah
Herausgeber:
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.11.2008
Zusatztext David McMahan has developed a creative and richly suggestive historical synthesis. ... McMahan's investigation is a valuable and welcome addition to studies of Victorian-era Buddhism, Buddhism and colonialism, Engaged Buddhism, and Buddhism in America. Informationen zum Autor David L. McMahan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1998. Klappentext In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses -- sometimes trivial, often profound -- to some of the most important concerns of the modern era. Zusammenfassung In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses - sometimes trivial, often profound - to some of the most important concerns of the modern era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity 2: The Spectrum of Tradition and Modernism 3: Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity 4: Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism 5Buddhist Romanticism: Art, Creativity, and the Wellsprings of Nature 6: A Brief History of Interdependence 7: Meditation and Modernity 8: Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of the World 9: From Modern to Postmodern? ...
Autorentext
David L. McMahan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1998.
Klappentext
In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses -- sometimes trivial, often profound -- to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.
Inhalt
1: Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity
2: The Spectrum of Tradition and Modernism
3: Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity
4: Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism
5Buddhist Romanticism: Art, Creativity, and the Wellsprings of Nature
6: A Brief History of Interdependence
7: Meditation and Modernity
8: Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of the World
9: From Modern to Postmodern?
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