Zen in Brazil : the quest for cosmopolitan modernity / Cristina Rocha
- Bib ID:
- 3748225
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rocha, Cristina
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2006
- xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780824829766
- 082482976X
- Series:
- Topics in comtemporary Buddhism.
- Summary:
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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. 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. Christina 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." "Cross-disciplinary in its approach, Zen in Brazil will appeal to scholars in the fields of religion, globalization, migration, Buddhism, and Asian and Latin American studies, as well as to those interested in anthropology and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.
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- Copyright:
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