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Dharma Diversity and Deep Inclusivity at the East Bay Meditation Center: From Buddhist Modernism to Buddhist Postmodernism? |
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Gleig, Ann
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Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.15 n.2 |
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| Date | 2014.11 |
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| Pages | 312 - 331 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Ann Gleig is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Central Florida. She has published numerous chapters and articles on Asian religions in America and is co-editor (with Lola Williamson) of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American (SUNY Press, 2013). She is also an editor for Religious Studies Review for the sociology, anthropology and psychology of religion.Address: University of Central Florida, Department of Philosophy, PSY 236, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816–1352. E-mail: |
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| Keyword | Dharma (Buddhism); Buddhist Doctrines; Ethnology; Meditation |
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| Abstract | Through an ethnographic study of the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, California, this paper examines recent attempts to diversify meditation-based convert American Buddhism. Celebrated as the ‘one of the most diverse Buddhist sanghas in the world’, EBMC opened its doors in January 2007 with the goal of offering a more diverse alternative to the predominantly white, middle-class populated American Buddhist groups in the Bay Area. The EBMC is rooted in a ‘gift economy’ and offers weekly meditation groups for People of Color, LGBTQI populations, and people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. While the EBMC houses separate identity-based groups, it is its attention to the multiple axes of difference—race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and disability— what I identify as ‘dharma diversity’—that mark it as unique. In conclusion, I suggest that EBMC's diversity culture might indicate the emergence of a new postmodern stage in the assimilation of Buddhism in America. |
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| Table of contents | Developing an alternative convert Buddhism: the history and ethos of EBMC 313
The Alphabet Sangha: queer diversity at the EBMC 314
Queering convert Buddhism: pragmatic and thematic strategies 316
Legitimating multiculturalism in convert Buddhism: diversity as Buddhist practice 323
Dharma diversity: from Buddhist modernism to Buddhist postmodernism? 325
Notes 328
References 329
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2014.932487 |
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| Hits | 234 |
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| Created date | 2015.11.11 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.17 |
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