TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Scott A.
TI  - Buddhism in America: global religion, local contexts 
SN  - 9781472581921
AV  - BQ732 .M58 2016
U1  - 294.30973 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - United States
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - 11.93 Buddhism
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Region
KW  - nbc
KW  - USA
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index; Convergence and divergence -- Histories -- A very short introduction to Buddhism -- Nineteenth century foundations -- From acculturation to the counterculture -- Diversity and pluralism at century's end -- Traditions -- Theravada traditions -- Mahayana traditions -- Vajrayana traditions -- Post-modern horizons? -- Frames -- Buddhist medias: art, practice, and representation -- Buddhist identities: race, gender, and sexuality -- Buddhist engagements: confronting environmental and social suffering -- Buddhist modernities: US Buddhism in its global context
N2  - Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism's history and encounter with North American culture, charts the landscape of US Buddhist communities, and engages current methodological and theoretical developments in the field. -- Provided by Publisher
ER  -