Sufism and Zen in the West
The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice
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- Publisher I.B. Tauris
- Date of Publication 20 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781838602352
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 238x160x20 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 681
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Long description:
Historically and culturally, Sufism and Zen may not seem to have anything in common. However, in the West, their spiritual messages are often perceived as strikingly similar. In this book, scholars analyse the ways in which Sufism and Zen were introduced to and developed in the West. The collection shows that the popularity of these religions arose not because of the substantive shared elements within the two traditions, but because their promoters in the West employed similar strategies to respond to the interests of a modern, Western audience. The first book to make a close comparison of Sufism and Zen, this study is an important contribution to understanding Western religious life and processes of 'easternisation'. It sheds new light on how Sufism and Zen came to represent a spirituality that is both countercultural and in touch with modern sensitivities.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Conventions for Non-English Terms
Introduction
Saeko Yazaki and Michael Conway
1. Rendering the Strange Familiar: Orientalist Appropriations of Sufism
Robert Irwin
2. Buddhism for the West: Modern Disenchantment, Religion, and Zen's Appeal to Modern Audiences
Tullio Lobetti
3. 'Mystics, Masters and Teachers': the Entanglement of Spirituality, Politics and Empire in the European 'Guru Field' c. 1918-1939
Steven J. Sutcliffe
4. The Universalist Exoticism of Inayat Khan: From Sufi to Prophet
Mark Sedgwick
5. Oneness and Separation in Japanese Buddhist Sensibility: Suzuki Daisetsu's Presentation of the Myokonin
Michael Conway
6. 'The dance is the (s)way of life': The open approach of the Jewish Sufi-Zen teacher Samuel Lewis and his Dances of Universal Peace
Saeko Yazaki
7. American Zen After D. T. Suzuki: Encounters with a Tibetan Buddhist Master
Akemi Iwamoto
8. Bringing Sufism to the Mainstream: 'Traditional Islam' and the Making of the Third Place in an American Muslim Community
Kei Takahashi
9. Zen for the Elite, Buddhism for the Masses: Religious and Spiritual Circulation between Japan and the West
J?rn Borup
Concluding Reflections
George Pattison
Sufism and Zen in the West: The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice
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