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Book Review: Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism |
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Wedemeyer, Christian K. (著)
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Volume | v.76 n.1 |
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| Date | 2008.03 |
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| Pages | 240 - 243 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | This volume represents the latest installment of University of Chicago Press' Critical Terms for… books, consisting of Critical Terms for Literary Study, Critical Terms for Art History, and most recently Critical Terms for Religious Studies. Given this trajectory, addressing to date three major fields of humanistic study, it is not immediately apparent why a smallish subfield of religious studies should merit its own volume—before, say, Critical Terms for History, or Anthropology, or Linguistics. As the study of Buddhism has on the whole been a consumer of theoretical reflection, rather than a producer, the resulting work cannot help but be less robust than its predecessors.
Though its target audience is nowhere clearly articulated, the level of discourse seems attuned more to the college classroom than to the university research library. The aim foregrounded by the editor (consonant with its place as the inaugural volume of Chicago's “Buddhism and Modernity” series) is to “analyze, critique, and explore [the modernist] image of Buddhism” (2)—that is, the “nice” image of Buddhism as rational, philosophical, ethical, social reformist, etc. Mercifully, few of the articles in the collection choose to scourge this particular moribund equine. More generally, the collection aims to serve as an “introduction to the fundamental categories essential for new and nuanced understandings of the Buddhist traditions” (3). A (very reasonable) choice was made to avoid “emic” terms, both native and “modern,” such as dharma, koan, emptiness, or wisdom (though the editor's essay on “Buddha” departs both from this policy and the alphabetical ordering). Aside from the Introduction, there are fifteen articles: Buddha (Donald S. Lopez, Jr.), Art (Charles Lachman), Death (Jacqueline I. Stone), Economy (Gustavo Benavides), Gift (Reiko Ohnuma), History (Timothy Barrett), Institution (Timothy Brook), Pedagogy (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick), Person (William Pietz), Power (Craig J. Reynolds), … |
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| ISSN | 00027189 (P); 14774585 (E) |
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| View book details | Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. Lopez, Donald Sewell, Jr. ; Lopez, Donald Sewell, Jr.. Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國]: University of Chicago Press, 2005.05. 344. 0226493156. (平).; 0226493148. (精). |
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| Created date | 2014.12.04 |
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| Modified date | 2021.11.05 |
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