Vol 21 (2020)

Table of Contents

Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

Introduction: Alternate Buddhist Modernities
John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, Alexander Soucy
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1-10
Branding a New Buddhist Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition’s Self- Identification as “Modern Buddhism”
Christopher Emory-Moore
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11-28
Reviving the Buddha: The Use of the Devotional Ritual of Buddha-Vandanā in the Modernization of Buddhism in Colonial Sri Lanka
Soorakkulame Pemaratana
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29-50
Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-en’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity
Casey R. Collins
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51-69

Special Focus: Bad Buddhism

An Introduction to Bad Buddhism
Hannah Gould, Melyn McKay
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141-151
Monastic Intimacies: An Anthropology of Good and Bad Buddhism among the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna (P.R. China)
Roger Casas
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153-169
Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh
Rohit Singh
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171-186
The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary
Nalika Gajaweera
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187-204
Connecting with and Distancing from: Transnational Influences in the Formation of Buddhist Identity and Practices in Bangladesh
Upali Sraman
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205-222
Doing good: Local and global understandings of Buddhism in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Mariske Westendorp
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223-239
Japan’s “Priests’ Bars”: “Bad Buddhism” or Hope for the Future?
John Nelson
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241-260
Beyond “Bad Buddhism”: Conceptualizing Buddhist Counseling in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia
Kristina Jonutytė
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261-276
Bad Buddhists, Good Robots: Techno-Salvationist Designs for Nirvana
Hannah Gould, Holly Walters
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277-294

Research Articles

Feeling for Fate: Karma and the Senses in Buddhist Nuns’ Ordination Narratives
Sara Ann Swenson
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71-86
Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism
Ray Buckner
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123-139

Discussions and Critical Notes

Translation through a Zen Mind: Sam Hamill’s Translation of Li Bai’s “Du Zuo Jing Ting Shan”
Jiyong Geng, Qiang Pi
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117-121

Book Reviews

Why I Am Not a Buddhist? by Evan Thompson
Thomas Calobrisi
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87-92
American JewBu, by Emily Sigalow
Vanessa Sasson
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93-95
Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, by Caroline Starkey
Amy Langenberg
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97-101
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, by Clair Brown
Wolfgang Drechsler
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103-109
Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, by Amy Langenberg,
Caroline Starkey
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111-116