Dixie dharma
Wilson, Jeff
Dixie dharma inside a Buddhist temple in the American South / [electronic resource] : Jeff Wilson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 281 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South -- Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism -- The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia -- The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces -- There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism -- Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture -- The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual -- Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.
9781469601816 1469601818
Buddhism--Southern States.
Southern States--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BQ739.U6 / W55 2012
294.30975
Dixie dharma inside a Buddhist temple in the American South / [electronic resource] : Jeff Wilson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 281 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South -- Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism -- The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia -- The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces -- There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism -- Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture -- The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual -- Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.
9781469601816 1469601818
Buddhism--Southern States.
Southern States--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BQ739.U6 / W55 2012
294.30975