Beyond Enlightenment - Richard Cohen

Beyond Enlightenment

Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-54444-3 (ISBN)
54,85 inkl. MwSt
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. Richard Cohen adeptly investigates some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism.
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.

Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation.

Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

Richard S. Cohen is Associate Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures at the University of California, San Diego. This is his first book, though he has published numerous articles in such venues as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and History of Religions. He is now working on a study of Buddhism and counterculture.

Preface 1. A Benign Introduction 2. A Place of Exceptional Universal Value 3. A Tale of Two Histories 4. The Anthropology of Enlightenment 5. What Do Gods Have to Do With Enlightenment? 6. A Baroque. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.4.2009
Reihe/Serie Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 470 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Weitere Fachgebiete Anthroposophie
ISBN-10 0-415-54444-0 / 0415544440
ISBN-13 978-0-415-54444-3 / 9780415544443
Zustand Neuware
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