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North American Buddhists in social context /
This volume marks an important milestone in the growing literature on North American Buddhists - the first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on the topic. Chapters examine the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context, includin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Religion and the social order ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume marks an important milestone in the growing literature on North American Buddhists - the first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on the topic. Chapters examine the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context, including group identity and status, religious practices, organizational structures, generational dynamics, relations with non-Buddhist groups and the larger society, and migratory and adaptive processes. Case studies feature Southeast Asian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, meditation-oriented, and socially en. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789047443537 9047443535 1283061090 9781283061094 |
| ISSN: | 1061-5210 ; |