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Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto |
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Barua, D. Mitra (著)
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| Date | 2019.04 |
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| Pages | 296 |
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| Publisher | McGill-Queens University Press |
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https://www.mqup.ca/
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| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada [蒙特婁, 魁北克省, 加拿大] |
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| Series | Advancing Studies in Religion Series |
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| Series No. | 5 |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | D. Mitra Barua is Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies. |
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| Abstract | Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations.
Drawing on survey data, over fifty in-depth interviews with temple monks, educators, parents, and children, and fieldwork conducted in Toronto and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism examines how a religious tradition is transmitted from one generation to the next in a new cultural setting, and what happens during that process of transmission. Barua demonstrates that Buddhists have passed on Buddhist beliefs, attitudes, and practices to their Canadian-born youth, who in turn have constructed their own distinct Buddhist identity, influenced by the individualistic, egalitarian, and secular cultural ambience in Toronto. Through creative fieldwork and translocal analysis - taking into account migrants' geographical, cultural, and familial ties to multiple locales - this book further explains that pre-migration experiences often shape and determine the success or failure of intergenerational transmission.
An ethnographic religious study with an uncommon depth of perspective, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism shows that first- and second-generation Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto are successfully practising Theravada Buddhism within a Canadian context. |
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| Table of contents | Figures and Tables | ix
Acknowledgments | xi
1 Introduction: Studying the Intercultural and Intergenerational Transmission of Buddhism | 3
2 Community Formation of Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto | 26
3 Dhamma Education and the Historical Construction of Buddhist Identities | 60
4 An Inclusive and Harmonious Buddhism: A Buddhist Response to Multiculturalism in Canada | 100
5 The Intergenerational and Intercultural Negotiation of Buddhism | 142
6 Growing up as Sri Lankan Canadian Buddhists in Toronto | 169
7 Conclusion: Making Sense of Reconfigured Buddhism in Toronto | 201
Appendix One: First-Generation Buddhists | 217
Appendix Two: Second-Generation Buddhists | 233
Notes | 245
References | 255
Index | 273 |
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| ISBN | 9780773556577 (pbk); 9780773556560 (hc) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto by D. Mitra Barua / Trainor, Kevin
- Book Review: Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto by D. Mitra Barua / Chan, Esther (評論)
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| Created date | 2023.06.20 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.20 |
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