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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism

Michael Jerryson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:29th Dec '16

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As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume contains 41 essays, divided into two sections. The essays in the first section examine the historical development of Buddhist traditions throughout the world. These chapters cover familiar settings like India, Japan, and Tibet as well as the less well-known countries of Vietnam, Bhutan, and the regions of Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. Focusing on changes within countries and transnationally, this section also contains chapters that focus explicitly on globalization, such as Buddhist international organizations and diasporic communities. The second section tracks the relationship between Buddhist traditions and particular themes. These chapters review Buddhist interactions with contemporary topics such as violence and peacebuilding, and ecology, as well as Buddhist influences in areas such as medicine and science. Offering coverage that is both expansive and detailed, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism delves into some of the most debated and contested areas within Buddhist Studies today.

Overall, this handbook provides a valuable resource to students and scholars not only within Buddhist, Religious, and/or Asian studies, but also those examining political science, history, international relations, modernization, sociology, and globalization. ... while each author must sacrifice discussing all possible topics, they each provide great depth regarding the issues they examine, thus delivering an ambitious and important handbook on contemporary Buddhism. * Courtney Bruntz, Religious Studies Review *
a full and scholarly reference work, replete with bibliographical resources and helpful analysis. * Jamin A. Hübner, Reading Religion *

ISBN: 9780199362387

Dimensions: 185mm x 249mm x 61mm

Weight: 1338g

760 pages