Description
First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some presence in North America in addition to a variety of Buddhist ?convert? communities, hybrid communities, and ?secular? Buddhist networks. Buddhist-derived practices such as mindfulness meditation have been deployed in health care and educational settings, the military, and the business sector. The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism guides readers through the rich terrain of American Buddhism, illuminating the diversity of Buddhist communities and identities, exploring the innovations that have emerged from the cross-fertilization of Buddhism and American culture, and extending the theoretical and methodological boundaries that have shaped the study of American Buddhism. The Handbook is organized into four parts: Foundations, Traditions, Practices, and Frames. The essays in this volume both build upon and go beyond previous scholarship, reexamining foundational topics while recovering neglected histories, centering marginalized identities, and analyzing the intersections between Buddhist practice and scholarship.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Ann Gleig and Scott A. Mitchell Section I: Foundations 1. American Buddhism, Modernity, and Globalization, Christopher Emory-Moore 2. The History of Buddhism in the United States, Thomas Calobrisi 3. Identities I: Race and Whiteness, Ann Gleig 4. Identities II: Gender and Sexuality, Amy Langenberg 5. American Buddhist Studies and Scholar-Practitioners, Scott A. Mitchell Section II: Traditions 6. Chinese Buddhism in America, Rongdao Lai 7. Pure Land Buddhism in America, Jesse J. Lee 8. Zen Buddhism in America, Ben Van Overmeire 9. Korean Buddhism in America, Claudia Schippert 10. Theravada Buddhism in America, Erik Braun 11. Nichiren Buddhism in America, Ralph H. Craig III 12. Vietnamese Buddhism in America, Todd LeRoy Perreira 13. Tibetan Buddhism in America, Holly Gayley and Joshua Brailler 14. American Buddhism and Judaism, Jay Michaelson Section III: Practices 15. Buddhist Monasticism in North America, Luke Clossey and Karen Ferguson 16. Food in American Buddhism, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley 17. Mindfulness and Meditation in the U.S., Nalika Gajaweera 18. American Buddhism and Healthcare, C. Pierce Salguero 19. Ritual, Rituals, and Ritualizing in American Buddhism, Richard K. Payne 20. Engaged Buddhism in the U.S., Funie Hsu/Chhi Section IV: Frames21. American Buddhism and Secularism, Kin Cheung 22. American Buddhism and Psychotherapy, Ira Helderman 23. American Buddhism and Technology, Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger 24. American Buddhist Education and Pedagogy, Judith Simmer-Brown 25. American Buddhist Chaplaincy Supervision, Jitsujo T. Gauthier 26. Buddhist Material Culture in the U.S., Peter Romaskiewicz 27. American Buddhism and Visual Culture, Winston C. Kyan 28. Buddhism and American Literature, Kimberly Beek
