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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: "This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S... [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective."-Religious Studies Review "This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America."-The Journal of Religion "Unbiased and insightful, Buddhism in America offers a view of how far the Buddhist movement has come in little more than a century and a peek at where it is going at the dawn of a new millennium."-Tricycle
Table of ContentsIntroduction One: Background Introduction 1. The American Buddhist Landscape 2. Very Basic Buddhism 3. The Three Vehicles 4. The American Setting Two: Major Traditions Introduction 5. Jodo Shinshu: America's Old-Line Buddhists 6. Soka Gakkai and Its Nichiren Humanism 7. Zen and Its Flagship Institutions 8. The Tibetan Milieu 9. The Theravada Spectrum 10. Other Pacific Rim Migrations Three: Selected Issues Introduction 11. Gender Equity 12. Socially Engaged Buddhism 13. Intra-Buddhist and Interreligious Dialogue 14. Making Some Sense of Americanization
