Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity 9780824865665

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Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Japanese-Brazilian Junction: Establishing Zen Missions
2. Non-Japanese Brazilians and the Orientalist Shaping of Zen
3. The Brazilian Religious Field: Where does Zen Fit In?
4. The Brazilian Imaginary of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms
5 Doing Zen, Being Zen: Creolizing ‘‘Ethnic’’ and ‘‘Convert’’ Buddhism
Conclusion Translocal Flows: The ‘‘Meditodrome’’ as a Zen Style of Governing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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