Teaching Buddhism in the West : from the wheel to the Web / edited by Victor Sōgen Hori, Richard P. Hayes, James Mark Shields.

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Corporate Author: McGill University. ǂb Faculty of Religious Studies
Other Authors: Hori, Victor Sōgen, Shields, James Mark, Hayes, Richard P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
Series:Curzon critical studies in Buddhism
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Table of Contents:
  • Teaching Buddhism in the postmodern university: understanding, critique, evaluation / Frank E. Reynolds
  • Buddhist studies in the academy: history and analysis / Charles S. Prebish
  • Representations of Buddhism in undergraduate teaching: the centrality of ritual and story narratives / Todd T. Lewis
  • Moving beyond the 'ism': a critique of the objective approach to teaching Buddhism / O'Hyun Park
  • Black ships, Blavatsky, and the pizza effect: critical self-consciousness as a thematic foundation for courses in Buddhist studies / Stephen Jenkins
  • An end-run round entities: using scientific analogies to teach basic Buddhist concepts / William S. Waldron
  • Engaging Buddhism: creative tasks and student participation / Joanne Wotypka
  • Peripatetic class: Buddhist traditions and myths of pedagogy / E.H. Rick Jarow
  • Buddhism and the teaching of Judo / David Waterhouse
  • Introducing Buddhism in a course on postmodernism / Susan Mattis
  • Zen and the art of not teaching Zen and the arts: an autopsy / Ronald L. Grimes
  • Liberal education and the teaching of Buddhism / Victor Sogen Hori
  • Teaching Buddhism by distance education: traditional and Web-based approaches / Mavis L. Fenn
  • Academic Buddhology and the Cyber-Sangha: researching and teaching Buddhism on the Web / Brett Greider.