Reimagining Zen in a secular age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West

"In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak offers an account of the exciting but also problematic encounter between enchanted Japanese Zen Buddhism and secular Western modernity over the past century, using Charles Taylor's magnum opus A Secular Age as an interpretative lens....

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Published in:Currents of encounter
Main Author: Braak, André van der 1963- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill | Rodopi 2020
In: Currents of encounter (volume 64)
Series/Journal:Currents of encounter volume 64
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Taylor, Charles 1840-1908 / Western world / Secularism / Zen Buddhism
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BL Buddhism
Further subjects:B Zen Buddhism Relations
B Zen Buddhism
B Buddhist Modernism
B Taylor, Charles (1931-) Secular age
B Secularism
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Summary:"In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak offers an account of the exciting but also problematic encounter between enchanted Japanese Zen Buddhism and secular Western modernity over the past century, using Charles Taylor's magnum opus A Secular Age as an interpretative lens. As the tenuous compromises of various forms of "Zen modernism" are breaking down today, new imaginings of Zen are urgently needed that go beyond both a Romantic mystical Zen and a secular "mindfulness" Zen. As a Zen scholar-practitioner, André van der Braak shows that the Zen philosophy of the 13th century Zen master Dōgen offers much resources for new hermeneutical, embodied, non-instrumental and communal approaches to contemporary Zen theory and practice in the West"--
Item Description:Includes index
ISBN:9004435077