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Bloomsbury Becoming Buddhist: Experiences of Socialization and Self-transformation in Australian Buddhist Centres (Continuum Advances in Religious Studies): 3

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Product Description What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian affiliates of two Western Buddhist centres in Australia, the author proposes an answer to this question, and finds support for it from interviews and her own participant-observation experience.Practitioners' prior experiences of experimentation with spiritual groups and practices-and their experiences of participation, practice and self-transformation-are examined with respect to their roles in practitioners' appropriation of the Buddhist worldview, and their subsequent commitment to the path to enlightenment.Religious commitment is experienced as a decision-point, itself the effect of the individual's experimental immersion in the Centre's activities.During this time the claims of the Buddhist worldview are tested against personal experience and convictions. Using rich ethnographic data and Lofland and Skonovd's experimental conversion motif as a model for theorizing the stages of involvement leading to commitment, the author demonstrates that this study has a wider application to our understanding of the role of alternative religions in western contexts. Review 'Becoming Buddhist explores the motivations and experiences of Western converts to Buddhism in an insightful and original way...This book is an invaluable resource for both scholars of Buddhism, and scholars of the contemporary Western spiritual marketplace.'--Sanford Lakoff'Becoming Buddhist explores the motivations andexperiences of Western converts to Buddhism in an insightful and originalway...This book is an invaluable resource for both scholars of Buddhism, andscholars of the contemporary Western spiritual marketplace.'--, About the Author Dr Glenys Eddy completed her doctoral thesis in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney in 2007. She currently works as a Research Administrative Officer at the University of Sydney.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1441118462
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > Philosophy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 March 2012
Listed Since: 15 June 2011

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