Sufism and Zen in the West

Saeko Yazaki is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow. Michael Conway is Associate Professor at Otani University, Kyoto.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Conventions for Non-English Terms

Introduction
Saeko Yazaki and Michael Conway

1. Rendering the Strange Familiar: Orientalist Appropriations of Sufism
Robert Irwin

2. Buddhism for the West: Modern Disenchantment, Religion, and Zen’s Appeal to Modern Audiences
Tullio Lobetti

3. ‘Mystics, Masters and Teachers’: the Entanglement of Spirituality, Politics and Empire in the European ‘Guru Field’ c. 1918-1939
Steven J. Sutcliffe

4. The Universalist Exoticism of Inayat Khan: From Sufi to Prophet
Mark Sedgwick

5. Oneness and Separation in Japanese Buddhist Sensibility: Suzuki Daisetsu’s Presentation of the Myokonin
Michael Conway

6. ‘The dance is the (s)way of life’: The open approach of the Jewish Sufi-Zen teacher Samuel Lewis and his Dances of Universal Peace
Saeko Yazaki

7. American Zen After D. T. Suzuki: Encounters with a Tibetan Buddhist Master
Akemi Iwamoto

8. Bringing Sufism to the Mainstream: ‘Traditional Islam’ and the Making of the Third Place in an American Muslim Community
Kei Takahashi

9. Zen for the Elite, Buddhism for the Masses: Religious and Spiritual Circulation between Japan and the West
Jørn Borup

Concluding Reflections
George Pattison