American Buddhism as identity and practice : scholarly classifications of Buddhists in the United States
| dc.contributor.advisor | Baroni, Helen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Walters, Christine L. | |
| dc.contributor.department | Religion | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-27T00:03:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-27T00:03:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-05 | |
| dc.description.degree | M.A. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/110057 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | |
| dc.rights | All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner. | |
| dc.subject | Buddhism -- United States | |
| dc.title | American Buddhism as identity and practice : scholarly classifications of Buddhists in the United States | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Religious identity is oftentimes inextricably linked with ethnic and racial identity, and this is nowhere as clear as in American Buddhism. The "two Buddhisms" typology, a product of scholars describing Buddhists through a racial lens, has characterized American Buddhism into two different types: Buddhism practiced by persons of Asian ancestry who were raised in the tradition, versus Buddhism comprised of persons who choose later in life to accept and/or practice Buddhist teachings. While it seems that Buddhists raised in the tradition have a different understanding of Buddhism than those who accept Buddhism as adults, the language used has tended to emphasize the racial identity of adherents at the sacrifice of religious identity. What I propose, as a correction to the overemphasis on race in American Buddhism scholarship, is a model of denominationalism which will place emphasis on religious identity, while incorporating racial and/or ethnic identity at a secondary level. | |
| dcterms.extent | 95 pages | |
| dcterms.language | eng | |
| dcterms.type | Text |
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