Dixie dharma : inside a Buddhist temple in the American South / Jeff Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Jeff (Jeff Townsend)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Southern States.

Buddhism.

Southern States--Religious life and customs.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Chapel Hill, NC] : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]

Summary:

Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting to life in the conservative evangelical Christian culture of the South, and how traditional Southerners are adjusting to these newer members on

Contents:

Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South

Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism

The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia

The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces

There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism

Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture

The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual

Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469601816

9798893134384

9798890885647

1-4696-0181-8

0-8078-6997-X

OCLC:

785811659