TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Jeff
TI  - Dixie dharma: inside a Buddhist temple in the American South 
SN  - 9780807869970
AV  - BQ739.U6 W55 2012
U1  - 294.30975 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Encounters at a Multidenominational Temple in the South; 1 Bringing a Regional Perspective to American Buddhism; 2 The Gift of Light: Buddhist Circuit Riders and New Religious Developments in Richmond, Virginia; 3 The Buddhist Confederacy: Differentiation and Identity in Buddhist Spaces; 4 There's No Such Thing as "Not My Buddhism": Hybridity, Boundary-Crossing, and the Practice of Pluralistic Buddhism; 5 Buddhism with a Southern Accent: American Buddhists in a Southern Culture; 6 The Reality of Our Collective Karma: Slave Trade Meditation Vigil as Southern Buddhist RitualConclusion: Buddhas on the Backstretch; Appendix: Statistical Data and Questionnaire; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
N2  - Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. In Dixie Dharma, Jeff Wilson argues that region is crucial to understanding American Buddhism. Through the lens of a multidenominational Buddhist temple in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson explores how Buddhists are adapting to life in the conservative evangelical Christian culture of the South, and how traditional Southerners are adjusting to these newer members on the rel
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