Buddhist Responses To Globalization

Author : Leah Kalmanson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073918055X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Responses to Globalization written by Leah Kalmanson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From various philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism—arguably the world’s first transnational religion—is a rich resource for navigating today's interconnected world. Buddhist Responses to Globalization addresses globalization as a contemporary phenomenon, marked by economic, cultural, and political deterritorialization, and also proposes concrete strategies for improving global conditions in light of these facts. Topics include Buddhist analyses of both capitalist and materialist economies; Buddhist religious syncretism in highly multicultural areas such as Honolulu; the changing face of Buddhism through the work of public intellectuals such as Alice Walker; and Buddhist responses to a range of issues including reparations and restorative justice, economic inequality, spirituality and political activism, cultural homogenization and nihilism, and feminist critique. In short, the book looks to bring Buddhist ideas and practices into direct and meaningful, yet critical, engagement with both the facts and theories of globalization.

Author : Linda Learman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824874021
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization written by Linda Learman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume dispels the common notion that Buddhism is not a missionary religion by revealing Asian Buddhists as active agents in the propagation of their faith. It presents at the same time a new framework with which to study missionary activity in both Buddhist and other religious traditions. Included are case studies of Theravada, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhist teachers and congregations, as well as the Pure Land, Shingon, Zen, and Soka Gakkai traditions of Japan. Contributors examine both foreign and domestic missions and the activities of emigrant communities, showing the resources and strategies garnered by late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Buddhists who worked to uphold and further their respective traditions, often under difficult circumstances. Based on anthropological fieldwork and historical research, the essays break new ground and provide better analytical tools for studying mission activity than previously available. They provide instructive comparisons with Anglo-American Protestant missionary thinking and offer insights into the internal dynamics of Sri Lankan and Japanese missions as they make their way in Protestant and Catholic societies. Also included are nuanced studies of two major missionary figures in late twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism and a fascinating look at the present Dalai Lama’s relationships with his devotees and the American government, viewed through an exposition of the abiding tradition within Tibetan Buddhism that combines mission activity with the political goals of exiled lamas. Contributors: Stuart Chandler; Peter B. Clarke; C. Julia Huang; Steven Kemper; Linda Learman; Sarah LeVine; Richard K. Payne; Cristina Rocha; George J. Tanabe, Jr.; Gray Tuttle.

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Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization from a Buddhist Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D C
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178804620
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization written by D C and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study conducted in Akola District of Maharashtra, India.

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438444605
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valuing Diversity written by Peter D. Hershock and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity matters. Whether in the context of ecosystems, education, the workplace, or politics, diversity is now recognized as a fact and as something to be positively affirmed. But what is the value of diversity? What explains its increasing significance? Valuing Diversity is a groundbreaking response to these questions and to the contemporary global dynamics that make them so salient. Peter D. Hershock examines the changes of the last century to show how the successes of Western-style modernity and industrially-powered markets have, ironically, coupled progressive integration and interdependence with the proliferation of political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental differences. Global predicaments like climate change and persistent wealth inequalities compel recognition that we are in the midst of an era-defining shift from the primacy of the technical to that of the ethical. Yet, neither modern liberalism nor its postmodern critiques have offered the resources needed to address such challenges. Making use of Buddhist and ecological insights, Valuing Diversity develops a qualitatively rich conception of diversity as an emerging value and global relational commons, forwarding an ethics of interdependence and responsive virtuosity that opens prospects for a paradigm shift in our pursuits of equity, freedom, and democratic justice.

Author : Richard Hughes Seager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939042
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Dharma written by Richard Hughes Seager and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging, deeply personal book, illuminating the search for meaning in today’s world, offers a rare insider’s look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism, one of Japan’s most influential and controversial religious movements, and one that is experiencing explosive growth around the world. Unique for its multiethnic make-up, Gakkai Buddhists can be found in more than 100 countries from Japan to Brazil to the United States and Germany. In Encountering the Dharma, Richard Seager, an American professor of religion trying to come to terms with the death of his wife, travels to Japan in search of the spirit of the Soka Gakkai. This book tells of his journey toward understanding in a compelling narrative woven out of his observations, reflections, and interviews, including several rare one-on-one meetings with Soka Gakkai president Daisaku Ikeda. Along the way, Seager also explores broad-ranging controversies arising from the Soka Gakkai’s efforts to rebuild post-war Japan, its struggles with an ancient priesthood, and its motives for propagating Buddhism around the world. One turning point in his understanding comes as Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai strike an authentically Buddhist response to the events of September 11, 2001.

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135986746
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in the Public Sphere written by Peter D. Hershock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 LIBERATING ENVIRONMENTS -- chapter 2 HEALTH AND HEALING: Relating the personal and the public -- chapter 3 TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF POST-MARKET ECONOMICS -- chapter 4 TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, AND THE COLONIZATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- chapter 5 GOVERNANCE CULTURES AND COUNTERCULTURES: Religion, politics, and public good -- chapter 6 DIVERSITY AS COMMONS: International relations beyond competition and cooperation -- chapter 7 FROM VULNERABILITY TO VIRTUOSITY: Responding to the realities of global terrorism -- chapter 8 EDUCATING FOR VIRTUOSITY.

Author : Douglas S. Duckworth
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781799062
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity written by Douglas S. Duckworth and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions?To what extent are Buddhists tolerant?Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone?If so, through which Buddhist tradition?Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Therav?din and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism.Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age.This volume brings together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side or in a meaningful dialogue with each other. It breaks new ground to further understanding and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.

Author : Douglas S. Duckworth
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN 13 : 9781781799048
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Responses to Religious Diversity written by Douglas S. Duckworth and published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia). This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses contemporary Buddhist responses to religious diversity from Theravādin and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives. Buddhist attitudes toward other religious traditions (and its own) are unquestionably diverse, and have undergone changes throughout historical eras and geographic spaces, as Buddhists, and traditions Buddhists have encountered, continue to change (after all, all conditioned things are impermanent). The present time is a particularly dynamic moment to take stock of Buddhist attitudes toward religious others, as Buddhist identities are being renegotiated in unprecedented ways in our increasingly globalized age. Is it true that Buddhists are tolerant of other religions? To what extent are Buddhists tolerant? Is nirvana held to be attainable through Buddhism alone? If so, through which Buddhist tradition? This volume approaches these questions and others from perspectives representing Theravādin and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism. The chapters herein bring together a spectrum of views that are not often found side-by-side in a single volume or in a meaningful dialogue with each other, needless to mention with other religions. This volume seeks to remedy this situation, and break new ground to enable further dialogue, understanding, and constructive encounters across Buddhist traditions and between other religious traditions and Buddhists.

Author : Gerald Cipriani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138221772
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Buddhism, Personalism and the Ethics of Globalisation written by Gerald Cipriani and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: