Buddhism in America

Richard Hughes Seager

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

One: Background

1. The American Buddhist Landscape

2. Very Basic Buddhism

3. The Three Vehicles

4. The American Setting

Two: Major Traditions

5. Jodo Shinshu: America's Old-Line Buddhists

6. Soka Gakkai and Its Nichiren Humanism

7. Zen and Its Flagship Institutions

8. The Tibetan Milieu

9. The Theravada Spectrum

10. Other Pacific Rim Migrations

Three: Selected Issues

11. Gender Equity

12. Socially Engaged Buddhism

13. Intra-Buddhist and Interreligious Dialogue

14. Making Some Sense of Americanization

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Religion
• Reference

Series

• Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series

About the Author

Richard Hughes Seager is associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and is the author of The World’s Parliament of Religions: The East-West Encounter, Chicago, 1893 and Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World’s Parliament of Religions.

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