© Columbia University Press
Buddhism in America
Paper, 336 pages, 30 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-10869-0
$27.00
/ £18.50
January, 2000
Cloth, 336 pages, 30 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-10868-3
$48.50
/ £33.50
"[Columbia University] Press continues to bring excellent scholarship to the general reader with this outstanding study of American Buddhism." — Jana Reiss, Publishers Weekly
"Unbiased and insightful, Buddhism in America offers a view of how far the Buddhist movement has come in little more than a century and a peek at where it is going at the dawn of a new millennium." — Don Morreale, Tricycle
"This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective." — Martin Baumann, Religious Studies Review
"This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America." — Franz Aubrey Metcalf, The Journal of Religion
"Richard Seager marks out a magnificent road map, directing us to important people, places, and issues in multifaceted Buddhist America at the turn of the millennium. . . . Under Seager’s guidance we discover a great deal about the Buddhists of America, but also a great deal about the Americanization of Buddhism." — Paul David Numrich, director of the Buddhist Chicago Project; author of Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples
"The first comprehensive treatment of Buddhism in America to take seriously the experiences of immigrants, Buddhism in America is a fascinating road map to the contemporary Buddhist landscape, with Seager as the expert guide." — Stephen Prothero, author of The White Buddhist
"Seager's account convincingly places developments within the broader context of the North American historyof religion and immigration. Apart from the perceptive observations and the straightforward structure, it is this contextualising perspective which gives the book its particular strength. Although clearly intended for a general readership, a specialist will nevertheless benefit from being directed to take the experience of 'immigrant Buddhism' as seriously as that of 'convert Buddhism'." — AASL, PLA, University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries