Dixie dharma : inside a Buddhist temple in the American South / Jeff Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, Jeff
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: encounters at a multidenominational temple in the South -- Bringing a regional perspective to American Buddhism -- The gift of light: Buddhist circuit riders and new religious developments in Richmond, Virginia -- The Buddhist confederacy: differentiation and identity in Buddhist spaces -- There's no such thing as "not my Buddhism": hybridity, boundary-crossing, and the practice of pluralistic Buddhism -- Buddhism with a Southern accent: American Buddhists in a Southern culture -- The reality of our collective karma: slave trade meditation vigil as Southern Buddhist ritual -- Conclusion: Buddhas on the backstretch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011036322
ISBN9780807835456 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807835455 (cloth : alk. paper)