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The Social Organization of Zen Practice - Constructing Transcultural Reality (Paperback)
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The Social Organization of Zen Practice - Constructing Transcultural Reality (Paperback)
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This book, first published in 1998, provides both a first-hand
account and a theoretical analysis of the way an American Zen
community works. The form Zen practice takes in the United States
is described in detail through close study of two Zen groups in
southern California. Preston leads readers through the buildings
and grounds of a Zen residential community and introduces them to
the main forms of Zen practice, paying special attention to the
styles and implications of meditation. The book's second half
develops a theory of the nature of religious reality as it is
shared by Zen practitioners. Preston attempts to explain how this
reality - based on a group's ethnography yet at the same time
transcending it - relates to meditation and other elements of Zen
practice by drawing on the notions of ritual, practice, emotions,
and the unconscious found in the writings of Pierre Bourdieu,
Randall Collins, Erving Goffman and Emile Durkheim.
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