Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West : orientalism, occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snodgrass, Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Missions.

Buddhism.

Buddhism--Japan--History--1868-1945.

Orientalism.

World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.).

World's Parliament of Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Introduction: Japan in Chicago; 1. Japan Faces the West; 2. Manifest Destiny: Christianity and American Imperialism; 3. The Rules of the Parliament: Securing the Truth; 4. Alterity: Buddhism as the ''Other'' of Christianity; 5. Buddhism and Modernity in Meiji Japan; 6. Buddhist Revival and Japanese Nationalism; 7. Deploying Wester Authority I: Henry Steel Olcott in Japan; 8. Buddhism and Treaty Revision: The Chicago Project; 9. Defining Eastern Buddhism; 10. Paul Carus: Buddhism and Monist Mission; 11. Deploying Western Authority II: Carus in Translation; 12. From Eastern Buddhism to Zen: A Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890877482

9780807863190

080786319X

OCLC:

476237539