02347nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10461252 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080303s2008 ne sb 000 0 eng d 2008009735 9789004168268 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789047443537 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)711004358 n------ BQ736 .N67 2008eb BL60 .R335 v.15eb 294.3/097 22 North American Buddhists in social context [electronic resource] / edited by Paul David Numrich. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. ix, 246 p. Religion and the social order : an official publication of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1061-5210 ; v. 15 Includes bibliographical references. North American Buddhists : a field of study? / Paul David Numrich -- Themes and issues in the study of North American Buddhists and Buddhism / Janet McLellan -- Temple and society in the new world : Theravada Buddhism and social order in North America / Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo -- The Buddhist mission of North America, 1898-1942 : religion and its social functions in an ethnic community / Arthur Nishimura -- Japanese American religiosity : a contemporary perspective / Tetsuden Kashima -- "True Buddhism is not Chinese": Taiwanese immigrants defining Buddhist identity in the United States / Carolyn Chen -- A religious minority within an ethnic minority : Korean American Buddhists / Karen Chai Kim -- The emergence of a new Buddhism : continuity and change / James William Coleman -- Soka Gakkai : engaged Buddhism in North America / Constance Lynn Geekie. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Buddhism Social aspects North America. Electronic books. local Numrich, Paul David, 1952- ebrary, Inc. Religion and the social order ; v. 15. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10461252 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 130192 130192