Ebook: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition
Author: Judith Snodgrass
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition: 1st edition,
- Language: English
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Snodgrass challenges the predominant view that Asian cultures are objectified and understood strictly through Western ideas. Based on a detailed examination of presentations by Japanese Buddhists at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, Snodgrass argues that Buddhists themselves helped reformulate Buddhism into a modern world religion.
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