The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23307306
EditoresMichael Jerryson
Año2016
Fecha de publicación2016-12-05
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.001.0001
OpenAlexW2755237726
ISBN9780199362387
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44

Over the last two hundred years, Buddhists have witnessed incredible transformations, and often they have participated in making them. Throughout history, religious systems have been intimately connected to economics, politics, and societies. These relationships were profoundly affected in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with the loss of monarchies and the advents of print technology, capitalism, socialism, and the nation-state. Such transformations had enormous impacts on Buddhism. The changes manifested both within Buddhist populated countries and beyond through Buddhist transnational organizations and Buddhist diasporas. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism tracks these changes to Buddhists, their rituals, and beliefs in the colonial and postcolonial world. Leading scholars in Buddhism have authored 41 chapters, divided into two parts. Part I contains chapters on the historical transformation of Buddhist traditions around the world and their interactions with globalization. Each chapter provides a background for the Buddhist tradition and then the ways in which it has changed with modernity. These chapters range from the more familiar traditions, such as Tibetan Buddhism, to the less familiar, such as Buddhism in Latin America and Africa. Part II contains chapters devoted to particular themes and their interactions with Buddhism, such as Buddhist approaches to gender, sexual orientation, and race. These chapters also examine the impacts of subjects such as technology, music, and architecture on Buddhism, as well as changes to the academic study of Buddhism itself.

Aesthetics · Buddhism · Globalization · Modernity · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces