Making of Buddhist Modernism

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-518327-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McMahan, David L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

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?

Über Autor(innen)

David L. McMahan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1998.