Zen in Brazil : : The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity / / Cristina Rocha.
Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as...
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Rocha, Cristina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Zen in Brazil : The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity / Cristina Rocha. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005] ©2005 1 online resource (272 p.) : 24 illus., 2 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ; 23 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Japanese-Brazilian Junction: Establishing Zen Missions -- 2. Non-Japanese Brazilians and the Orientalist Shaping of Zen -- 3. The Brazilian Religious Field: Where does Zen Fit In? -- 4. The Brazilian Imaginary of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms -- 5 Doing Zen, Being Zen: Creolizing ''Ethnic'' and ''Convert'' Buddhism -- Conclusion Translocal Flows: The ''Meditodrome'' as a Zen Style of Governing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Despite national media attention, the rapidly expanding Brazilian market for Buddhist books and events, and general interest in the globalization of Buddhism, the Brazilian case has received little scholarly attention. Cristina Rocha addresses that shortcoming in Zen in Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, she examines Brazilian history, culture, and literature to uncover the mainly Catholic, Spiritist, and Afro-Brazilian religious matrices responsible for this particular indigenization of Buddhism. In her analysis of Japanese immigration and the adoption and creolization of the Sôtôshû school of Zen Buddhism in Brazil, she offers the fascinating insight that the latter is part of a process of "cannibalizing" the modern other to become modern oneself. She shows, moreover, that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to acquire and accumulate cultural capital both locally and overseas. Their consumption of Zen, Rocha contends, has been an expression of their desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Japanese Brazil Religion. Zen Buddhism Brazil History. Zen Buddhism Japan History. RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY / Zen). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824829766 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824865665 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824865665 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824865665/original |
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