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This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From various philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism-arguably the world's first transnational religion-is a rich resource for navigating today's interconnected world. Buddhist Responses to Globalization addresses globalization as a contemporary phenomenon, marked by economic, cultural, and political deterritorialization, and also proposes concrete strategies for improving global conditions in light of these facts. Topics include Buddhist analyses of both capitalist and materialist economies; Buddhist religious syncretism in highly multicultural areas such as Honolulu; the changing face of Buddhism through the work of public intellectuals such as Alice Walker; and Buddhist responses to a range of issues including reparations and restorative justice, economic inequality, spirituality and political activism, cultural homogenization and nihilism, and feminist critique. In short, the book looks to bring Buddhist ideas and practices into direct and meaningful, yet critical, engagement with both the facts and theories of globalization.

Globalization --- Buddhism --- Mondialisation --- Bouddhisme --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Social aspects. --- Doctrines. --- Aspect religieux --- Aspect social --- Doctrines

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to re-establish a "true" - rational, ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism, the Critical Buddhists undertook a radical deconstruction of historical and contemporary East Asian Buddhism, particularly Zen. While their controversial work has received some attention in English-language scholarship, this is the first book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement, where the lines between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructive analysis of Critical Buddhism, particularly the epistemological categories of critica and topica, this book examines contemporary theories of knowledge and ethics in order to situate Critical Buddhism within modern Japanese and Buddhist thought as well as in relation to current trends in contemporary Western thought.

Buddhism --- Religion. --- Doctrines. --- Rituals & Practice. --- Buddhist philosophy --- Philosophy, Japanese --- Bouddhisme --- Philosophie bouddhique --- Philosophie japonaise --- History --- Histoire --- Doctrines --- Buddhahood --- Buddhism - Japan - History - 1945 --- -Buddhism - Doctrines --- Philosophy, Japanese - 20th century --- Japan --- modern Zen thought --- modern Japanese Buddhist tought --- japanese religions --- Zen Buddhism

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Boeddhisme. --- Bouddhisme --- Buddhism --- Buddhismus. --- Religionsunterricht. --- Renouveau du bouddhisme. --- Étude et enseignement. --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Westliche Welt. --- the West --- North America --- history --- teaching Buddhism --- Europe --- culture --- pedagogical methods --- the internet

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