Presenting Japanese Buddhism To The West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, And The Columbian Exposition

Book Summary


Snodgrass challenges the predominant view that Asian cultures are objectified and understood strictly through Western ideas. Based on a detailed examination of presentations by Japanese Buddhists at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, Snodgrass argues that Buddhists themselves helped reformulate Buddhism into a modern world religion.

Book Details


Book Name Presenting Japanese Buddhism To The West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, And The Columbian Exposition
Author Judith Snodgrass
Publisher University Of North Carolina Press (Jun 2003)
ISBN 9780807827857
Pages 360
Language English
Price 4452
 
 

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