Buddhism and Modernity

Lionel L. Obadia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2013
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4051-6739-0 (ISBN)

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What is the connection between Buddhism and modernity? In this ground-breaking book, Lionel Obadia considers the encounters of Buddhism with different features of what is usually called modernity, including modernist ideologies, psychology, new technologies and capitalism, and explores the connections between the two phenomena.

Lionel Obadia is professor in the Department of Anthropology, University ofLyon 2 (France), and director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Anthropologiques (CREA). He has published five popular books (Bouddhisme et Occident, Paris : L'Harmattan, 1999, La Religion and La Sorcellerie, Paris: Le Cavalier Bleu, 2004 and 2005 respectively, Le bouddhisme en Occident and Anthropologie des religions, both published in 2007, Paris : La Decouverte, collection "Reperes"). He also has an English-language manuscript under consideration: Western Buddhism: body, space and community.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.2.2013
Verlagsort	Chicester
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4051-6739-4 / 1405167394
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-6739-0 / 9781405167390
Zustand	Neuware