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Converting American Buddhism: Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion |
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Baker, Drew (著)
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| Date | 2020 |
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| Pages | 394 |
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| Publisher | Claremont Press |
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https://www.claremontpress.com/index.html
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| Location | Claremont, CA, US [克萊蒙特, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Series | Claremont Studies in Interreligious Dialogue |
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| Series No. | 2 |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | This book starts with a mystery. Even though the children of Buddhist American converts likely outnumber their parents, neither Buddhist practitioners nor academics have discussed the experiences of second-generation Buddhists in the United States. Why this absence of ink? Why are second-generation Buddhist Americans invisible?
Drew Baker addresses these questions by reconstructing the cultural history of Buddhist American converts and their children from the 1950s to the present. This study covers a wide range of popular narratives—including Jack Kerouac’s novels, parenting manuals, films like Little Buddha, and essays and autobiographies by second-generation Buddhist Americans.
This cultural history reveals that white Buddhist American converts’ power and visibility has been reinforced by the Orientalist idea of the monk-convert lineage which presents the convert—represented as a free white young adult—as the sole heroic incarnation of the present and future of Buddhism in the modern world. The children of these converts are invisible under this paradigm. By considering their stories, Baker demonstrates that the converts’ children cultivate strategies that invoke the authority of their parents against itself so that they might be recognized as true Buddhist Americans. The children are here to claim their inheritance. |
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| Table of contents | Contents
Acknowledgements ix
The Family Album Buried in the Closet 1
Rediscovering a Genealogy from Buddhist American
Converts to Second-Generation Buddhist Americans
When Two Means One 69
Retracing Scholarly Traditions on Buddhism in the United States
The Mountain of Youth 123
Converting American Buddhism and the Authority of the Monk-Convert Paradigm From Master’s Tools to Child’s Toys 209
Remaking the Political as Personal
Child’s Mind, Parent’s Mind 289
Nightlight Buddhists, Alternative Linages of Authority, and (Dis)Placing the Buddhist American Canon
Conclusion 343
Buddhism in the Made and the Creative Possibilities of Tradition
Bibliography 369
Index 391 |
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| ISBN | 9781946230409 (pbk); 9781946230430 (eb) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Converting American Buddhism: Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion by Drew Baker / Baumann, Martin (評論)
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| Created date | 2023.06.28 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.28 |
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