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Buddhist Modernities - Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World (Paperback)
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Buddhist Modernities - Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
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The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age
have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of
attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism,
which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist
teachings and practices in conformity with the modern norms of
rationality, science, or gender equality. This book advances
research on Buddhist modernism by attempting to clarify the highly
diverse ways in which Buddhist faith, thought, and practice have
developed in the modern age, both in Buddhist heartlands in Asia
and in the West. It presents a collection of case studies that,
taken together, demonstrate how Buddhist traditions interact with
modern phenomena such as colonialism and militarism, the market
economy, global interconnectedness, the institutionalization of
gender equality, and recent historical events such as
de-industrialization and the socio-cultural crisis in post-Soviet
Buddhist areas. This volume shows how the (re)invention of
traditions constitutes an important pathway in the development of
Buddhist modernities and emphasizes the pluralistic diversity of
these forms in different settings.
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