Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing
This article challenges academic explorations of Orientalism as an interaction between a white West and an Asian East within the context of American Buddhist communities. Taking as its focus twentieth- and twenty-first-century semiautobiographical writings by black American Buddhists, this article e...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 883-911 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Americas
/ Blacks
/ Buddhist
/ Autobiographical literature
/ Buddha 563 BC-483 BC
/ Interpretation of
/ Racism
/ Orientalism (Cultural sciences)
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RelBib Classification: | BL Buddhism KBQ North America |
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