Bringing Zen Home

The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals

Paula Arai (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2011
University of Hawai'i Press (Verlag)
978-0-8248-3535-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Paula Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts - to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing.

Autor

Paula Arai, the author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns, received her Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University under the mentorship of Masatoshi Nagatomi. She is an associate professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 16 illustrations
• Verlagsort: Honolulu, HI
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 580 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8248-3535-2 / 0824835352
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3535-4 / 9780824835354
• Zustand: Neuware