Race and Religion in American Buddhism

by Joseph Cheah

While academic and popular studies of Buddhism have often neglected race as a factor of analysis, the issues concerning race and racialization have remained not far below the surface of the wider discussion among ethnic Buddhists, converts, and sympathizers regarding representations of American Buddhism and adaptations of Buddhist practices to the American context. In Race and Religion in American Buddhism, Joseph Cheah provides a much-needed contribution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199756287
• ISBN13: 9780199756285
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"