Describing the Elephant
Buddhism in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter N Gregory (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-263 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.2001.11.2.233 |
| OpenAlex | W1998003493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 18 |
The expanding volume of publications on Buddhism in America in the last two and a half decades bears witness to the emergence of an exciting new subfield within American religion, on the one hand, and within Buddhist studies, on the other. For Americanists, it reflects a growing recognition of the ways in which non-Western religions are altering the American religious landscape. As such, it is part of an emerging awareness of the increasingly pluralistic and multicultural nature of American society at the turn of the millennium. For Buddhologists, the spread of Buddhism in America opens a new chapter in the long history of the geographical and cultural diffusion of the religion since its founding in India some 2,500 years ago. This new subfield thus holds the prospect of studying what promises to be a momentous development in the history of Buddhism, and it affords an opportunity to study the acculturation of the tradition as it is actually occurring. Clearly this is a field where both Americanists and Buddhologists have much to contribute and much to learn from one another
Acculturation · Ancient history · Archaeology · Buddhism · Buddhist studies · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Geography · History of religions · Multiculturalism · Political science · Sociology · Witness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
The geography of Buddhism in the Four Corners states
The varieties of contemplative experience
Reflections on Habits, Buddhism in America, and Religious Individualism
Ekō-Ji
Initial Evidence for a Brief Measure of Buddhist Coping in the United States
Spiritual Coping in American Buddhists
Buddhists’ Religious and Health Practices
From Buddhism in America to American Buddhisms
Two buddhisms further considered
Learning Love from a Tiger
Pedagogical Possibilities
Buddhism and Modernity
Two Buddhisms in Contemporary Mongolia
Fluid Minds
Expanding the study of U.S. religion
Zen and the Science of American Politics
Contesting "Conversion" and "Reversion" among Young Adult Asian American Buddhists
Mapping the American Buddhist Terrain
Imagining Buddhist modernism
The Zen of Anarchy
Intersex individuals' religiosity and their journey to wellbeing
Keeping It Real
Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health
Asian America
Racial and ethnic groups
How the swans came to the lake
Old wisdom in the New World
The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia
Theravāda Buddhism
Shin Buddhism in America
Divided Dharma
Issues of Ethnicity in the Buddhist Churches of America
Journey to the Far West
The Two Wheels of the Dhamma
The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism
Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience
Strangers From A Different Shore
The Zen of Japanese Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |