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Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence
Author Hershock, Peter D. (著)
Edition1st Edition
Date2009.04.21
Pages240
PublisherRoutledge
Publisher Url http://www.routledge.com/
LocationFlorence, KY, US [佛羅倫薩, 肯塔基州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
KeywordKarma=Kamma; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 空性=Sunyata=Sunnata=Emptiness; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪修=Meditation
AbstractThe core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence.

In eight chapters, the key arenas for public policy are addressed: the environment, health, media, trade and development, the interplay of politics and religion, international relations, terror and security, and education. Each chapter explains how a specific issue area has come to be shaped by complex interdependence and offers specific insights into directing the growing interdependence toward greater equity, sustainability, and freedom. Thereby, a sustained meditation on the meaning and means of realizing public good is put forward, which results in a solid Buddhist conception of diversity. Hershock argues that concepts of Karma and emptiness are relevant across the full spectrum of policy domains and that Buddhist concepts become increasingly forceful as concerns shift from the local to the global.

A remarkable book on this fascinating religion, Buddhism in the Public Sphere will be of interest to scholars and students in Buddhist studies and Asian religion in general.
Table of contents1. Liberating Environments
2. Health and Healing when Relationships are Basic
3. Trade, Development, and the Possibility of Post-Market Economics
4. Technology, Media, and the Colonization of Consciousness
5. Governance Cultures and Countercultures: Religion, Politics and Public Good
6. Diversity as Commons: International Relations Beyond Competition and Cooperation
7. From Vulnerability to Virtuosity: Reflections on Responding to Terrorism and Tragedy
8. Educating for Virtuosity
ISBN0415544432; 9780415544436 (pbk)
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Created date2009.07.03
Modified date2021.09.03



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