The Making of Buddhist Modernism

David L. McMahan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518327-6 (ISBN)

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In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses - sometimes trivial, often profound - to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.

David L. McMahan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1998.

1. Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity ; 2. The Spectrum of Tradition and Modernism ; 3. Buddhism and the Discourses of Modernity ; 4. Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism ; 5 ; 6. A Brief History of Interdependence ; 7. Meditation and Modernity ; 8. Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of the World ; 9. From Modern to Postmodern?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2008
Zusatzinfo	15 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-19-518327-4 / 0195183274
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518327-6 / 9780195183276
Zustand	Neuware