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Buddhism in America Richard Hughes Seager
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks BQ732.S43 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seager, Richard Hughes.
- Series:
- Columbia contemporary American religion series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--United States.
- Buddhism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
- Contents:
- The American Buddhist landscape
- Very basic Buddhism
- Three vehicles
- The American setting
- Jodo Shinshu : America's old-line Buddhists
- Soka Gakkai and its Nichiren humanism
- Zen and its flagship institutions
- The Tibetan milieu
- The Theravada spectrum
- Other Pacific Rim migrations
- Gender equity
- Socially engaged Buddhism
- Intra-Buddhist and interreligious dialogue
- Making some sense of Americanization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0231108680
- OCLC:
- 40481142
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