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Coming to Terms with “Engaged Buddhism”: Periodizing, Provincializing, and Politicizing the Concept |
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Hsu, Alexander O. (著)
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Journal of Global Buddhism
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| Volume | v.23 n.1 |
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| Date | 2022 |
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| Pages | 17 - 31 |
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| Publisher | Journal of Global Buddhism |
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https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/department-for-the-study-of-religions/
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| Location | Lucerne, Switzerland |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | engaged Buddhism; humanistic Buddhism; modern Buddhism |
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| Abstract | Whatever happened to “Engaged Buddhism”? Twenty years after a flurry of publication placing this global movement firmly on the map, enthusiasm for the term itself appears to have evaporated. I attempt to reconstruct what happened: scholars turned away from the concept for its reproducing colonialist understandings of traditional Buddhism as essentially world-rejecting, and they developed alternate discourses for describing Buddhist actors’ multifarious social and political engagements, especially in contemporary Asia. I describe the specific rise and fall of the term in Anglophone scholarship, in order for scholars to better grasp the evolution of contemporary Western, Anglophone Buddhisms, to better understand what Buddhists in Asia are in fact doing with the term, and to better think through what it might mean politically for us as scholars to deploy the term at all. In particular, I identify “Academic Engaged Buddhism” (1988–2009) as one hegemonic form of Engaged Buddhism, a Western Buddhist practitioner-facing anthological project of Euro-American scholars with potentially powerful but unevenly distributed effects on Buddhist thought and practice around the world. |
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| Table of contents | “Engaged Buddhism” in Asia and its Critics in the Study of Global Buddhism since the1990s 18
“Academic Engaged Buddhism” for Western Scholars and Practitioners of Buddhism 20
“Engaged Buddhist Studies”: Skillfully Negotiating with Engaged Buddhisms in the Anglosphere 22
Acknowledgements 26
Author details 26
References 26 |
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| ISSN | 15276457 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.1991 |
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| Created date | 2022.12.09 |
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| Modified date | 2022.12.16 |
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