Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in a Zen Buddhist Temple A Perspective of Buddhist Rhetoric /

• Main Author: Zhang, Fan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Buddhism.; Intercultural communication.; Applied linguistics.; Intercultural Communication.; Applied Linguistics.

This book explores the practices in a Zen Buddhist temple located in Northwest Ohio against the backdrop of globalization. Drawing on the previous studies on Buddhist modernization and westernization, it provides a better understanding of the westernization of Buddhism and its adapted practices and...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter I. Buddhism and Rhetoric: From an Intercultural Perspective
• Chapter II. A Brief History of Modern Zen Buddhism in the United States
• Chapter III. The Temple's Paradox: Maintaining Cultural Traditions in the Discourse of Modernization and Democratization
• Chapter IV. Constructing Buddhist Identity at the H Temple
• Chatper V. The Buddhist Rhetoric of the H Temple: What does it Meam to be an American Buddhist?
• References.