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Zen in Brazil : The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity / Cristina Rocha.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ; 23Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 24 illus., 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824829766
  • 9780824865665
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3/9270981 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ9262.9.B6 R63 2006
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Japanese-Brazilian Junction: Establishing Zen Missions -- 2. Non-Japanese Brazilians and the Orientalist Shaping of Zen -- 3. The Brazilian Religious Field: Where does Zen Fit In? -- 4. The Brazilian Imaginary of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms -- 5 Doing Zen, Being Zen: Creolizing ''Ethnic'' and ''Convert'' Buddhism -- Conclusion Translocal Flows: The ''Meditodrome'' as a Zen Style of Governing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Despite national media attention, the rapidly expanding Brazilian market for Buddhist books and events, and general interest in the globalization of Buddhism, the Brazilian case has received little scholarly attention. Cristina Rocha addresses that shortcoming in Zen in Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, she examines Brazilian history, culture, and literature to uncover the mainly Catholic, Spiritist, and Afro-Brazilian religious matrices responsible for this particular indigenization of Buddhism. In her analysis of Japanese immigration and the adoption and creolization of the Sôtôshû school of Zen Buddhism in Brazil, she offers the fascinating insight that the latter is part of a process of "cannibalizing" the modern other to become modern oneself. She shows, moreover, that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to acquire and accumulate cultural capital both locally and overseas. Their consumption of Zen, Rocha contends, has been an expression of their desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Japanese-Brazilian Junction: Establishing Zen Missions -- 2. Non-Japanese Brazilians and the Orientalist Shaping of Zen -- 3. The Brazilian Religious Field: Where does Zen Fit In? -- 4. The Brazilian Imaginary of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms -- 5 Doing Zen, Being Zen: Creolizing ''Ethnic'' and ''Convert'' Buddhism -- Conclusion Translocal Flows: The ''Meditodrome'' as a Zen Style of Governing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Despite national media attention, the rapidly expanding Brazilian market for Buddhist books and events, and general interest in the globalization of Buddhism, the Brazilian case has received little scholarly attention. Cristina Rocha addresses that shortcoming in Zen in Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, she examines Brazilian history, culture, and literature to uncover the mainly Catholic, Spiritist, and Afro-Brazilian religious matrices responsible for this particular indigenization of Buddhism. In her analysis of Japanese immigration and the adoption and creolization of the Sôtôshû school of Zen Buddhism in Brazil, she offers the fascinating insight that the latter is part of a process of "cannibalizing" the modern other to become modern oneself. She shows, moreover, that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to acquire and accumulate cultural capital both locally and overseas. Their consumption of Zen, Rocha contends, has been an expression of their desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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