Buddhist responses to globalization /
This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From various philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism -- arguably the world's first transnational religion -...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, James Mark Shields and Leah Kalmanson
- Part I: Globalization as Spatial, Cultural, and Economic Deterritorialization
- 1) Squaring Freedom with Equity: Challenging the Karma of the Globalization of Choice, Peter D. Hershock
- 2) Alice Walker, the Grand Mother, and a Buddhist-Womanist Response to Globalization, Carolyn M. Jones Medine
- 3) Religious Change as Glocalization: The Case of Shin Buddhism in Honolulu, Ugo Dessi
- 4) From Topos to Utopia: Critical Buddhism, Globalization, and Ideology Criticism, James Mark Shields
- Part II: Normative Responses to Globalization
- 5) An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of Reparations, Leah Kalmanson
- 6) Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theologies: Fierce Compassion as a Mode of Justice, Melanie L. Harris
- 7) World, Nothing, and Globalization in Nishida and Nancy, John W.M. Krummel
- 8) A Zen Master Meets Contemporary Feminism: Reading Dogen as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy, Erin McCarthy.