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Issei Buddhism in the Americas -

Issei Buddhism in the Americas

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2010
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-07719-7 (ISBN)
CHF 42,90 inkl. MwSt
A wide-ranging exploration of Asian immigrant religion
Rich in primary sources and featuring contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific, Issei Buddhism in the Americas upends boundaries and categories that have tied Buddhism to Asia and illuminates the social and spiritual role that the religion has played in the Americas. While Buddhists in Japan had long described the migration of the religion as traveling from India, across Asia, and ending in Japan, this collection details the movement of Buddhism across the Pacific to the Americas. Leading the way were pioneering, first-generation Issei priests and their followers who established temples, shared Buddhist teachings, and converted non-Buddhists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book explores these pioneering efforts in the context of Japanese diasporic communities and immigration history and the early history of Buddhism in the Americas. The result is a dramatic exploration of the history of Asian immigrant religion that encompasses such topics as Japanese language instruction in Hawaiian schools, the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia, the roles of Buddhist song culture, Tenriyko ministers in America, and Zen Buddhism in Brazil.
Contributors are Michihiro Ama, Noriko Asato, Masako Iino, Tomoe Moriya, Lori Pierce, Cristina Rocha, Keiko Wells, Duncan Ry/u00fbken Williams, and Akihiro Yamakura.

Duncan Ryuken Williams is an associate professor of Japanese Buddhism and the chair of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Tomoe Moriya is a professor of international communication at Hannan University, Japan.

Contributors are Noriko Asato, Michihiro Ama, Masako Iino, Tomoe Moriya, Lori Pierce, Cristina Rocha, Keiko Wells, Duncan Ryuken Williams, and Akihiro Yamakura.

Reihe/Serie Asian American Experience
Co-Autor Michihiro Ama, Noriko Asato, Masako Iino
Zusatzinfo 1 table
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 313 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 0-252-07719-9 / 0252077199
ISBN-13 978-0-252-07719-7 / 9780252077197
Zustand Neuware
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