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Buddhism in the Global Eye focuses on the importance of a global context and transnational connections for understanding Buddhist modernizing movements. It also explores how Asian agency has been central to the development of modern Buddhism, and provides theoretical reflections that seek to overcome misleading East-West binaries. Using case studies from China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Canada, and the USA, the book introduces new research that reveals the permeable nature of certain categories, such as "modern", "global", and "contemporary" Buddhism. In the book, contributors recognize the multiple nodes of intra-Asian and global influence. For example, monks travelled among Asian countries creating networks of information and influence, mutually stimulating each other's modernization movements. The studies demonstrate that in modernization movements, Asian reformers mobilized all available cultural resources both to adapt local forms of Buddhism to a new global context and to shape new foreign concepts to local Asian forms.
Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West, John S. Harding, Victor Sogen Hori, Alexander Soucy, Bloomsbury Academic, Paperback, 222 Pages, $40.95
John S. Harding is Associate Professor in East Asian Religions at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. He is the author of Mahayana Phoenix: Japan's Buddhists at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions (2008), and the editor of Studying Buddhism in Practice (2012).
Victor Sogen Hori is Associate Professor (retired) in Japanese Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Canada. He is a former Buddhist monk, and the author of Zen Sand (2003).
Alexander Soucy is Professor of the Religious Studies Department at Saint Mary's University, Canada. He is the author of The Buddha Side: Gender, Power, and Buddhist Practice in Vietnam (2012).
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