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North American Buddhists in social context

Paul David Numrich
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface: On the Being of Not Being (William H. Swatos, Jr., page vii)
  • 1. North American Buddhists: A Field of Study? (Paul David Numrich, page 1)
  • 2. Themes and Issues in the Study of North American Buddhists and Buddhism (Janet McLellan, page 19)
  • 3. Temple and Society in the New World: Theravada Buddhism and Social Order in North America (Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, page 51)
  • 4. The Buddhist Mission of North America 1898-1942: Religion and Its Social Functions in an Ethnic Community (Arthur Nishimura, page 87)
  • 5. Japanese American Religiosity: A Contemporary Perspective (Tetsuden Kashima, page 107)
  • 6. "True Buddhism is Not Chinese": Taiwanese Immigrants Defining Buddhist Identity in the United States (Carolyn Chen, page 145)
  • 7. A Religious Minority within an Ethnic Minority: Korean American Buddhists (Karen Chai Kim, page 163)
  • 8. The Emergence of a New Buddhism: Continuity and Change (James William Coleman, page 185)
  • 9. Soka Gakkai: Engaged Buddhism in North America (Constance Lynn Geekie, page 203)
  • Afterword: Modernization, Globalization, and Buddhism (Joseph B. Tamney, page 225)
  • Contributors (page 243)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ASSR 54.148 (Oct.-Dec. 2009): 262-264 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40930168
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Brill
ISBN(s)
  • 9789004168268 (hardcover)
  • 9789047443537 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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