Blasphemy as "Bhāvana": Anti-Christianity in a New Buddhist Movement

Over the course of the twentieth century, Buddhism came to be associated widely with peace, tolerance, and calm detachment in the Western popular imagination. This association was created in opposition to depictions of Christianity as violent, intolerant, and irrational. Buddhism, as the imagined pe...

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Main Author: Wilson, Jeff 1975- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press [2019]
In: Nova religio
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 8-35
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Western Buddhist Order / Intolerance / Christianity
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
AZ New religious movements
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
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