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 |