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Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11719312Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 080786319X
  • 9780807863190
  • 0807854581
  • 9780807854587
  • 0807827851
  • 9780807827857
  • 9798890877482
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/0952/091821 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ5925 .S63 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 15.75
  • BE 8508
  • HD 370
  • 8
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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.
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Summary: Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)102042

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-343) and index.

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.

Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.

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