Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West [electronic resource] : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass

Author	Snodgrass, Judith
Title	Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West [electronic resource] : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass
Imprint	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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Descript	351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Japan faces the West -- Manifest destiny: Christianity and American imperialism -- The rules of the parliament: securing the truth -- Alterity: Buddhism as the "other" of Christianity -- Buddhism and modernity in Meiji Japan -- Buddhist revival and Japanese nationalism -- Deploying western authority 1.: Henry Steel Olcott in Japan -- Buddhism and treaty revision: the Chicago project -- Defining Eastern Buddhism -- Paul Carus: Buddhism and Monist mission -- Deploying western authority 2.: Carus in translation -- From Eastern Buddhism to Zen: a postscript

World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago Ill.) Buddhism -- Missions Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- 1868-1945 Orientalism Electronic books.