Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition

Author:   Richard K. Payne
Publisher:   Shambhala Publications Inc
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 August 2021
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Author:   Richard K. Payne
Publisher:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Imprint:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781611808896


ISBN 10:   1611808898
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Thoughtful and engaging at every turn, this volume is indispensable for anyone who wants to investigate-and move beyond-the dualities that shape our understandings of Buddhism. Readers may well discover themselves to be both more and less secular than they once assumed. -Chenxing Han, author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists This volume provides a much-needed critical treatment of the multiple 'secularizing Buddhism' processes and projects underway in global Buddhism. Exploring a range of contexts from the Pali canon to Pure Land Buddhism, the museum to the mindfulness movement, these authors clearly illuminate the complicity between secularization and colonialism, racism, and neoliberalism. Secularizing Buddhism makes two important intellectual and ethical interventions: It identifies the ethnocentric, racialized violence that occurs when the secular is constructed as binary other and developmentally superior to the religious. It also suggests how the relationship between the two can be reconfigured in more fluid, dynamic, and context-sensitive ways. -Ann Gleig, author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity As Buddhadharma and Buddhist practice are transmitted to the West and as Buddhism engages with modernity, Buddhist ideas, practices, and commitments are adapted and transformed. This fascinating collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of contemporary Buddhism explore the complex interaction of Buddhism with the modern world. This volume will be a valuable resource for practitioners, scholars, and anybody interested in the present and future of Buddhism and in the contributions it can make to our world. -Jay Garfield, author of Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy Utilizing but not bound by slippery dichotomies such as secular vs religious, modern vs traditional, and West vs East-taking them instead as 'semiotic pairs' or, to use a more traditional Buddhist concept, as 'non-dual'-the essays in this fine collection explore various facets of Buddhism in contemporary society. From mindfulness in the schools to Buddhist art in museums, from controversies over rebirth to 'immanent' Buddhism and more, Secularizing Buddhism provides a thoughtful mosaic of our ever-evolving situation. -Paul L. Swanson, author of Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions This volume paints a nuanced picture of the dynamic changes that Buddhism is undergoing globally. . . . Ultimately, this collection gives Buddhists of all stripes more common ground for productive conversations that steer clear of dogmatism. -Buddhadharma


Thoughtful and engaging at every turn, this volume is indispensable for anyone who wants to investigate--and move beyond--the dualities that shape our understandings of Buddhism. Readers may well discover themselves to be both more and less secular than they once assumed. --Chenxing Han, author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists This volume provides a much-needed critical treatment of the multiple 'secularizing Buddhism' processes and projects underway in global Buddhism. Exploring a range of contexts from the Pali canon to Pure Land Buddhism, the museum to the mindfulness movement, these authors clearly illuminate the complicity between secularization and colonialism, racism, and neoliberalism. Secularizing Buddhism makes two important intellectual and ethical interventions: It identifies the ethnocentric, racialized violence that occurs when the secular is constructed as binary other and developmentally superior to the religious. It also suggests how the relationship between the two can be reconfigured in more fluid, dynamic, and context-sensitive ways. --Ann Gleig, author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity As Buddhadharma and Buddhist practice are transmitted to the West and as Buddhism engages with modernity, Buddhist ideas, practices, and commitments are adapted and transformed. This fascinating collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of contemporary Buddhism explore the complex interaction of Buddhism with the modern world. This volume will be a valuable resource for practitioners, scholars, and anybody interested in the present and future of Buddhism and in the contributions it can make to our world. --Jay Garfield, author of Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy Utilizing but not bound by slippery dichotomies such as secular vs religious, modern vs traditional, and West vs East--taking them instead as 'semiotic pairs' or, to use a more traditional Buddhist concept, as 'non-dual'--the essays in this fine collection explore various facets of Buddhism in contemporary society. From mindfulness in the schools to Buddhist art in museums, from controversies over rebirth to 'immanent' Buddhism and more, Secularizing Buddhism provides a thoughtful mosaic of our ever-evolving situation. --Paul L. Swanson, author of Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions


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RICHARD K. PAYNE is the Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. Richard is active in the fields of Japanese Buddhist studies and ritual studies. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the Institute's annual journal, Pacific World, and is chair of the Editorial Committee of the Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series.

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