Buddhism and Modernity - Lionel L. Obadia

Buddhism and Modernity

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2013
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4051-6778-9 (ISBN)
25,65 inkl. MwSt
What is the connection between Buddhism and modernity? In this ground-breaking book, Lionel Obadia considers the encounters of Buddhism with different features of what is usually called modernity, including modernist ideologies, psychology, new technologies and capitalism, and explores the connections between the two phenomena.

Lionel Obadia is professor in the Department of Anthropology, University ofLyon 2 (France), and director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Anthropologiques (CREA). He has published five popular books (Bouddhisme et Occident, Paris : L'Harmattan, 1999, La Religion and La Sorcellerie, Paris: Le Cavalier Bleu, 2004 and 2005 respectively, Le bouddhisme en Occident and Anthropologie des religions, both published in 2007, Paris : La Decouverte, collection "Reperes"). He also has an English-language manuscript under consideration: Western Buddhism: body, space and community.

Introduction: Buddhism and Modernity, between fashion and science.1. Buddhism, Religions and Modernities: A View from the West.The issue.Buddhism and History: a "tradition facing modernity"?.Buddhism and "Multiple modernities".2. Buddhism and cultural modernity: Western encounters.Buddhism in a "modern world".The construction of Buddhism as a "Modern" Religion.Buddhisms, modernisms and traditionalisms.Buddhism as a modern "spirituality": ideals and facts.Conclusion: A methodological issue.3. Buddhism on the positivistic edge: the Rationalist Fabric of Buddhism as Science.Buddhism as philosophy.Buddhism as science.Buddhism as psychology.4. The encounter of Buddhism and Political Modernity: East and West.Western-styled political "modernities".Buddhism, Human Rights and modern violence.Global politics: Buddhism a the modern transnational Ethics.5. Capitalism, Modernity and the "religious economy".Buddhism and Economy.Religion and the Market economy The controversial commodification of Buddhism.Beyond economic modernity. Is Buddhism "capitalism"?.6. Buddhist responses to modernity: anti-modernism, traditionalism and universalism.Modernism, postmodernism and a changing world: contemporary resonances of Buddhist messages.Postcolonialism and responses to Western Modernity.Global Warnings, Ecology, and the Hazards of Modernity.Modern values, global virtues: Buddhism, Universalism and the paradoxes of culture.7. Buddhism on the electronic frontier: ICTs, "Cybersangha" and "HyperDharma".Buddhism and Information technologies: early affairs.Buddhism in the "Information Age": economies of diffusion and new "territories" for the dharma.Spiritual virtuality? "Cybersangha" and "HyperDharma".ICTs: A challenge for Buddhism?.8. The "Modern" transformations of Buddhism: evidences and paradoxes.Is there something like a "modernization" of Buddhism?.Asian-Buddhist styles of modernity: Buddhist modernisms.Modernism: Neo-Buddhism.9. Conclusion: rethinking Buddhism, tradition and modernity.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.2.2013
Verlagsort Chicester
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4051-6778-5 / 1405167785
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-6778-9 / 9781405167789
Zustand Neuware
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