Dixie dharma : inside a Buddhist temple in the American South /

Wilson, Jeff

Dixie dharma : inside a Buddhist temple in the American South / Jeff Wilson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012. - viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South -- Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism -- The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia -- The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces -- There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism -- Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture -- The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual -- Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.

9780807835456 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807835455 (cloth : alk. paper)

2011036322

016057698 Uk


Buddhism--Southern States.
Budismo.
Budismo--Historia.
Vida espiritual.
Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.


Southern States--Religious life and customs.

BQ 739.6 / W746d 2012

294.30975