Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) - Tapa blanda

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Cohen, Richard

 
9780415544443: Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
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ISBN 10: 0415544440 ISBN 13: 9780415544443
Editorial: Routledge, 2009

Sinopsis

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.

Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation.

Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

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Acerca del autor

Richard S. Cohen is Associate Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures at the University of California, San Diego. This is his first book, though he has published numerous articles in such venues as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and History of Religions. He is now working on a study of Buddhism and counterculture.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415544440
ISBN 13 
9780415544443
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
254
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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München
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Alemania

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9780415372947: Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

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ISBN 10:  0415372941 ISBN 13:  9780415372947
Editorial: Routledge, 2006
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