The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality - Couverture rigide

Preston, David L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052135000X ISBN 13 : 9780521350006

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1998, provides both a first-hand account and a theoretical analysis of the way an American Zen community works.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book, first published in 1998, provides both a first-hand account and a theoretical analysis of the way an American Zen community works. The form Zen practice takes in the United States is described in detail through close study of two Zen groups in southern California. Preston leads readers through the buildings and grounds of a Zen residential community and introduces them to the main forms of Zen practice, paying special attention to the styles and implications of meditation. The book's second half develops a theory of the nature of religious reality as it is shared by Zen practitioners. Preston attempts to explain how this reality - based on a group's ethnography yet at the same time transcending it - relates to meditation and other elements of Zen practice by drawing on the notions of ritual, practice, emotions, and the unconscious found in the writings of Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins, Erving Goffman and Emile Durkheim.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052135000X
• ISBN 13: 9780521350006
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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