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Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snodgrass, Judith
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Subjects:
World's Parliament of Religions > (1893 : > Chicago, Ill.)
Buddhism > Missions.
Buddhism > Japan > History > 1868-1945.
Orientalism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Japan faces the West
  • Manifest destiny: Christianity and American imperialism
  • The rules of the parliament: securing the truth
  • Alterity: Buddhism as the "other" of Christianity
  • Buddhism and modernity in Meiji Japan
  • Buddhist revival and Japanese nationalism
  • Deploying western authority 1.: Henry Steel Olcott in Japan
  • Buddhism and treaty revision: the Chicago project
  • Defining Eastern Buddhism
  • Paul Carus: Buddhism and Monist mission
  • Deploying western authority 2.: Carus in translation
  • From Eastern Buddhism to Zen: a postscript.