Teaching Buddhism: New Insights on Understanding and Presenting the Traditions

Lewis, Todd (編); DeAngelis, Gary (編)

作者

Lewis, Todd (編) ; DeAngelis, Gary (編)

出版日期

2017

頁次

400

出版者

Oxford University Press

出版者網址

https://academic.oup.com/

出版地

New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]

叢書名

American Academy of Religion Teaching Religious Studies

資料類型

書籍=Book

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

Edited by Todd Lewis, Lecturer, Associate Director of Special Studies, College of the Holy Cross, and Edited by Gary deAngelis, Murray Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of World Religion, College of the Holy Cross

Todd T. Lewis is the Murray Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities in the Religious Studies Department at The College of the Holy Cross, where he has taught since 1990. Professor Lewis is one of the world's leading authorities on the religions of the central Himalayan region and the social history of Buddhism.

Gary deAngelis has taught Asian Religions for forty six years at Boston University, Brandeis University, Clark University and for the last twenty nine years at Holy Cross College, also serving as the Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Holy Cross. His primary areas of teaching and scholarship have been Chinese and Japanese religions with a particular emphasis on scared space, pilgrimage, and ritual.

關鍵詞

Buddhism; pedagogy; ritual; philosophy; undergraduate; praxis; ethics; modernity; engaged; scholar-practitioner

摘要

Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of scholarship that continually shifts in focus and expands to new areas.

Teaching Buddhism establishes a dialogue between the community of instructors of Buddhism and leading scholars in the field who are updating, revising, and correcting earlier understandings of Buddhist traditions. Each chapter presents new ideas within a particular theme of Buddhist studies and explores how courses can be enhanced with these insights. Contributors in the first section focus on the typical approaches, figures, and traditions in undergraduate courses, such as the role of philosophy in Buddhism, Nagarjuna, Yogacara Buddhism, tantric traditions, and Zen Buddhism. They describe the impact of recent developments-like new studies in the cognitive sciences-on scholarship in those areas. Part Two examines how political engagement and ritual practice have shaped the tradition throughout its history. Focus then shifts to the issues facing instructors of Buddhism-dilemmas for the scholar-practitioner in the academic and monastic classroom, the tradition's possible roles in teaching feminism and diversity, and how to present the tradition in the context of a world religions course. In the final section, contributors offer stories of their own experiences teaching, paying particular attention to the ways in which American culture has impacted them. They discuss the development of courses on American Buddhism; using course material on the family and children; the history and trajectory of a Buddhist-Christian dialog; and Buddhist bioethics, environmentalism, economic development, and social justice. In synthesizing this vast and varied body of research, the contributors in this volume have provided an invaluable service to the field.

Acknowledgments
Editors' Preface
Introduction: Tensions in the Field of Religious and Buddhist Studies
John Strong
Note on Transliteration of Asian Languages
List of Contributors
Part 1: Updating Perennial Course Subjects
1. Teaching Buddhism as Philosophy
Mark Siderits
2. Teaching Nagarjuna
Roger R. Jackson
3. Teaching Yogacara Buddhism Using Cognitive Science
William S. Waldron
4. Teaching Tantric Buddhism in an Undergraduate Classroom Context
David B. Gray
5. Rethinking the Teaching of Zen Buddhism
Steven Heine
Part 2: Reimagining the Content of "Buddhism"
6. In Defense of the Dharma: Buddhists and Politics
Thomas Borchert and Ian Harris
7. Conveying Buddhist Tradition through its Rituals
Todd Lewis
Part 3: Issues in Teaching, Practice, and Connecting Students with the Tradition
8. Teaching Buddhism in the Western Academy
Jan Willis
9. Teaching Buddhist History to Buddhist Practitioners
Rita M. Gross
10. Deconstructing Identity Categories and Cultivating Appreciation
for Diversity: Teaching Buddhism and Feminism
Hsiao-Lan Hu
11. Teaching Buddhism in the World Religions Course - Challenges and Promise
Gary DeAngelis
Part 4: Buddhism and the American Context
12. When The Iron Bird Flies: Seeking Western Buddhism in the Classroom
Charles Prebish
13. Conveying Buddhism in the Classroom: Working
with Assumptions on Family and Children
Vanessa R. Sasson
14. Teaching Engaged Buddhism in Uncertain Times
Christopher Queen
Part 5: Buddhism in New Academic Fields
15. History of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
Paul O. Ingram
16. Teaching Buddhist Bioethics
Damien Keown
17. Buddhist Environmentalism
Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel
18. Buddhism and Economic Development
Laszlo Zsolnai
19. "We Can Do No Less:" Buddhism and Social Justice
Anna Brown
Index

ISBN

9780199373093 (hc); 9780199373116 (eb)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199373093.001.0001

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