American JewBu (eBook)

Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change

Emily Sigalow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19781-4 (ISBN)

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A revealing look at the Jewish American encounter with BuddhismToday, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish roots. This book tells the story of Judaism's encounter with Buddhism in the United States, showing how it has given rise to new contemplative forms within American Judaism-and shaped the way Americans understand and practice Buddhism.Taking readers from the nineteenth century to today, Emily Sigalow traces the history of these two traditions in America and explains how they came together. She argues that the distinctive social position of American Jews led them to their unique engagement with Buddhism, and describes how they incorporate aspects of both Judaism and Buddhism into their everyday lives. Drawing on a wealth of original in-depth interviews conducted across the nation, Sigalow explores how Jewish American Buddhists experience their dual religious identities. She reveals how Jewish Buddhists confound prevailing expectations of minority religions in America. Rather than simply adapting to the majority religion, Jews and Buddhists have borrowed and integrated elements from each other, and in doing so they have left an enduring mark on the American consciousness.American JewBu highlights the leading role that American Jews have played in the popularization of meditation and mindfulness in the United States, and the profound impact that these two venerable traditions have had on one another.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Alan Lew • american jews • americans • Anagarika Munindra • Antisemitism • Bhikkhu • Bhikkhu Bodhi • Blanche Hartman • Bodhi • Buddhism • Buddhism in the United States • Buddhism in the West • Buddhist Meditation • Buddhist modernism • Buddhist philosophy • Buddhist Studies • Cambridge Zen Center • Christianity • Christian monasticism • conservative judaism • Cultural Judaism • Dalai Lama • Daniel Goleman • Demythologization • Dharma transmission • Doctrine • Engaged Buddhism • gentile • Hebrew Calendar • Hebrew School • Insight Meditation Society • Interfaith dialogue • Jack Kornfield • Jewish Buddhist • Jewish Culture • Jewish day school • Jewish History • Jewish Holidays • Jewish Identity • Jewish meditation • Jewish Peoplehood • Jewish prayer • Jewish renewal • Jewish Studies • Jews • Joseph Goldstein (writer) • Judaism • Liberal Judaism (United Kingdom) • Literature • Loving-Kindness • Mahasi Sayadaw • Meditation • Mel Weitsman • Mentorship • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction • mitzvah • Modernity • Mysticism • Naropa • Nathan Katz (professor) • New Religious Movement • newspaper • Nishmat • participant observation • Protestantism • Rabbi • Racism • ram dass • recitation • Reform Judaism • Religion • Religious Community • Religious Identity • Religious liberalism • religious text • Rodger Kamenetz • san francisco zen center • Secularization • Shabbat • Sharon Salzberg • Sociology • Spirituality • Spiritual practice • Sri Lanka • Suffering • Surya Das • Synagogue • Syncretism • Teacher • The Jew in the Lotus • Theravada • Thubten Chodron • Tibetan Buddhism • Toni Packer • University of California Press • Vipassana • Wes Nisker • Writing • zalman schachter-shalomi • zen master
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19781-4 / 0691197814
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19781-4 / 9780691197814