North American Buddhists in social context / / edited by Paul David Numrich.
This volume marks an important milestone in the growing literature on North American Buddhists—the first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on the topic. Chapters examine the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context, including...
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| Superior document: | Religion and the social order : an official publication of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, v. 15 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and the social order ;
v. 15. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- North American Buddhists : a field of study? / Paul David Numrich
- Themes and issues in the study of North American Buddhists and Buddhism / Janet McLellan
- Temple and society in the new world : Theravada Buddhism and social order in North America / Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
- The Buddhist mission of North America, 1898-1942 : religion and its social functions in an ethnic community / Arthur Nishimura
- Japanese American religiosity : a contemporary perspective / Tetsuden Kashima
- "True Buddhism is not Chinese": Taiwanese immigrants defining Buddhist identity in the United States / Carolyn Chen
- A religious minority within an ethnic minority : Korean American Buddhists / Karen Chai Kim
- The emergence of a new Buddhism : continuity and change / James William Coleman
- Soka Gakkai : engaged Buddhism in North America / Constance Lynn Geekie.